num_pages: 253
description: The Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade legalized abortion. Yet while the medical procedure is legal-and safe-many women across the country do not have the ability to exercise this reproductive right. Melody Rose examines abortion as a social regulatory policy, thoughtfully and thoroughly chronicling the erosion of abortion rights and availability since Roe. Paying respect to all views of this controversial topic in her engaging new book, Rose explores the success of the right-to-life movement in accumulating local and national policies that restrict access to abortion while enhancing fetal protections. In addition to a basic and brief primer on the practice and history of abortion, Rose considers the roles played by the courts, political parties, and interest groups in constructing barriers to abortion.
language: English
title: Safe, Legal, and Unavailable? Abortion Politics in the United States
titlecomplete: Safe, Legal, and Unavailable? Abortion Politics in the United States
genres: Nonfiction, Feminism
ratings_count: 17
publisher: CQ Press