The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States

by Gene Burns

Book Overview

Why have legislative initiatives occurred on such controversial issues as contraception and abortion at times when activist movements had demobilized and the public seemed indifferent? Why did the South - currently a region where anti-abortion sentiment is stronger than in most of the country - liberalize its abortion laws in the 1960s at a faster pace than any other region? Why have abortion and contraception sometimes been framed as matters of medical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521609844
• ISBN13: 9780521609845
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.4"