Intended Consequences : Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America.
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| ISBN: | 9780198021537 0198021534 9781602564633 1602564639 1280655259 9781280655258 1423736729 9781423736721 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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. The growth of the feminist movement in the late 1960s fundamentally altered the debate over the federal family planning movement, shifting its focus from population. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (319 pages) |
| Language Note: | English. |
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