Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America

by Donald T. Critchlow

Book Overview

After World War II, U.S. policy experts--convinced that unchecked population growth threatened global disaster--successfully lobbied bipartisan policy-makers in Washington to initiate federally-funded family planning. In Intended Consequences, Donald T. Critchlow deftly chronicles how the government's involvement in contraception and abortion evolved into one of the most bitter, partisan controversies in American political history.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195046579
• ISBN13: 9780195046571
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Politics of population control

When one wants a history of how the modern world is shaped, too often it is found in boring academic books or in lurid conspiracy theory language.This book gives a thoughtful discussion of the whos, whys, and hows of the social policies that aided the idea of population control, with its intended consequences of increasing wealth and security, and its unintended consequences of undermining family life.For information, I rate it a five. It is a clear and well written discussion of this often controversial topic. Unlike the more politicized books of this nature, it is not an exciting read. However it is clearly written so the average reader would find it helpful.