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Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War
Fri, 2008-04-11 09:41 - Kerry
 | Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War author: William Saletan asin: 0520243366 binding: Paperback list price: $17.95 USD amazon price: $17.95 USD |
In his gripping, behind-the-scenes account, journalist William Saletan reveals exactly how, thirty years after Roe v. Wade, "pro-choice" conservatives have won the abortion war. Having successfully turned abortion into a privacy issue, conservatives now prevail on issues ranging from abortion's legality and parental notification to Medicaid, rape, and cloning; consequently, reproductive autonomy is now becoming inaccessible to the young and the poor. This eye-opening exposé tells how abortion rights activists–people who desired social change, women's equality, and broader access to health care–have had their message co-opted in a culture of privacy and limited government. Bearing Right is also a story about the essentially conservative character of the United States today.
Saletan tells how, beginning in Arkansas in 1986 during the administration of Governor Bill Clinton, the National Abortion Rights Action League repackaged the abortion issue to give it broader appeal to conservatives. Pro-choice conservatives adopted this new rhetoric and made the abortion issue their own. Saletan takes us through the key events in the ensuing story–the fight over the nomination of Judge Robert Bork, the election of Governor Doug Wilder in Virginia, the convergence of the Bush and Clinton positions on abortion in 1992, and much more–right up to the present day.
This book is a crucial lesson in how politicians and interest groups can change the way we vote, not by telling us facts or lies, but by reshaping the way we think–in part through mass marketing. Today, the abortion rights movement must ask itself what it has won and what it is fighting for. This book is sure to play a role in answering that question.
Introduction
1. A Place Called Hope
2. Privacy and Prejudice
3. Who Decided
4. The New Mainstream
5. Triage
6. Middle Ground
7. Victims and Villains
8. The Right to Choose Life
9. The Era of Big Government
10. Fatal Position
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1. A Place Called Hope
2. Privacy and Prejudice
3. Who Decided
4. The New Mainstream
5. Triage
6. Middle Ground
7. Victims and Villains
8. The Right to Choose Life
9. The Era of Big Government
10. Fatal Position
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity, by Susan Starr Sered and Rushika Fernandopulle
Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage, by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, With a New Preface by the Author, by Paul Farmer
Poverty in America: A Handbook, by John Iceland
Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance, by Harold L. Wilensky
Inventing the Needy: Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary, by Lynne Haney
The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political Development in India and the United States, by John Echeverri-Gent
Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity, by Susan Starr Sered and Rushika Fernandopulle
Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage, by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, With a New Preface by the Author, by Paul Farmer
Poverty in America: A Handbook, by John Iceland
Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance, by Harold L. Wilensky
Inventing the Needy: Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary, by Lynne Haney
The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political Development in India and the United States, by John Echeverri-Gent
Comments
Options and Choices
Face a bad situation, what is a person to do? Choices and decisions are usually based on next-of-kin... funny how things sometimes work in this world.
The radical right seems to forget how the love for money still decides the final outcome in certain wars. What war is bigger than that between man and woman?
Who in their right mind would not have a Plan B in mind if Plan A didn't work-out so well?
The question is, how many know about the approved Plan B?
It's pure marketing genius!
My friends told me about this "non-abortion" pill. You can get it without a prescription and it costs $25. I bet it won't take long for the big price increase, since something like this is being promoted big-time on college campuses.
See for yourself what's out there, and why it's much easier taking a pill than talking to a parent or partner!
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