Title: Intended Consequences
First published: 1999
Description: 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 thegovernment'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 control directed by established interests in the philanthropic community to highly polarized pro-abortion and anti-abortion groupsmobilized at the grass-roots level...
Subjects: Government policy, Politics and government, Birth control, Social policy, Abortion, History, Nonfiction, United states, social policy, Abortion, government policy, united states, Family policy, Birth control, law and legislation, Family Planning Policy, Legal Abortion, Politics, Medical Legislation, Contraception, Methods, Induced Abortion, Family Planning Services
Places: United States
LC classification: HQ763.6.U5 C75 1999