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McBride and Jennifer L. Keys Copyright © 2018 by ABC-CLIO, LLC All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: McBride, Dorothy E., author. | Keys, Jennifer L., author. Title: Abortion in the United States : a reference handbook / Dorothy E. McBride and Jennifer L. Keys. Description: Second edition. | Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2018] | Series: Contemporary world issues Identifiers: LCCN 2018012392 (print) | LCCN 2018013522 (ebook) | ISBN 9781440853371 (ebook) | ISBN 9781440853364 (alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Abortion—United States. | Abortion—Law and legislation—United States. | Pro-life movement—United States. | Pro-choice movement—United States. Classification: LCC HQ767.5.U5 (ebook) | LCC HQ767.5.U5 M3727 2018 (print) | DDC 362.1988/80973—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018012392 ISBN: 978-1-4408-5336-4 (print) 978-1-4408-5337-1 (ebook) 22 21 20 19 18 1 2 3 4 5 This book is also available as an eBook. ABC-CLIO An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC ABC-CLIO, LLC 130 Cremona Drive, P.O. Box 1911 Santa Barbara, California 93116-1911 www.abc-clio.com This book is printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America Contents Preface, xvii Acknowledgments, xxi 1 Background and History, 1 Introduction, 1 Criminalization: The 19th-Century Debate, 4 Reform and Repeal: The Road to Decriminalization, 11 Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, 21 After Roe: Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Movements Face Off, 24 Pro-Life Movement, 25 Pro-Choice Movement, 28 Frames and Framing: Tools for Understanding Abortion Debates, 30 References, 33 2 ProBlems, controversies, and solutions, 37 Introduction, 37 Constitutional Legality of Abortion, 41 Amending the Constitution, 42 Changing the Court, 44 State Regulation of Abortion, 52 vii viii Contents Government Support of Abortion, 58 Political Polarization, 58 Hyde Amendment, 60 Global and Domestic Funding Restrictions, 62 Fighting for the Rights of the Unborn, 65 Pro-Life Framing, 65 Partial-Birth Abortion and Infanticide, 68 Late-Term Abortions, 72 Prenatal Drug Laws, 74 Third-Party Fetal Killing, 76 Fighting for the Rights of Women, 78 Pro-Choice Framing, 78 The Abortion Pill, 81 Emergency Contraception, 83 Accurate Information, 84 Environmental Safety, 88 Access, 90 Stigma, 94 Solutions and Common Ground, 96 Shifting Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Frames, 96 Toning Down the Rhetoric, 100 Polling to Identify Areas of Consensus, 103 References, 105 3 PersPectives, 119 Introduction, 119 The Roots of Roe: Not Liberty, but Privacy by Trysh Travis, 120 Contents ix Normalizing Abortion: An Interview with a Reproductive Health Care Provider by Jennifer Keys, 125 The Abortion Diary: Uncovering, Sharing, and Listening to the Archive We Hold within Our Bodies by Melissa Madera, 134 Treating Each Other Like Drunk Girls in the Bathroom: A Pro-Life Feminist Finds Acceptance at the Women’s March by Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa, 141 Why I Work for Planned Parenthood: Debunking Common Misconceptions about America’s Leading Reproductive Health Care Provider by Brigid Leahy, 146 Pregnancy Help Centers: Offering Women Choice and Hope in the Midst of Crisis by Jay Hobbs, 153 Fathers and Abortion by Bertha Alvarez Manninen, 157 Who Should or Should Not Be Born?: The Collision between Reproductive Rights and Disability Rights by Stefanija Giric, 163 4 Profiles, 171 Introduction, 171 People, 172 On the Pro-Choice Side, 172 Bill Baird (1932–), 172 Jennifer Baumgardner (1970–), 173 Mary Steichen Calderone (1904–1998), 173 Gloria Feldt (1942–), 174 Sherri Chessen Finkbine (1930–), 175
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