Bearing Right
Subtitle: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 20, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780520086883
Subjects: Abortion; American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Political science & theory; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; USA; Abortion & Birth Control; United States - General; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Citizen participation; Government policy; Public opinion; United States
Description: "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 expose tells how abortion rights activists - people who desired social change, women's equality, and broader access to healthcare - 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." "This book teaches a crucial lesson about 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."--Jacket.