Safe, legal, and unavailable?: abortion politics in the United States

A brief history of American abortion policy

The early years

The movement to re-legalize abortion

The opposition emerges

The current debate

Abortion as social regulatory policy

Political labels

Research methodology

Maternal and fetal citizenship

Abortion: just the facts

Is the United States unique on the world stage?

Incidence of abortion in the United States

The United States compared to the world

Why women have abortions

Abortion and safety

Who has abortions in the United States

When women have abortions

The court of public opinion

Abortion on demand? : the Supreme Court and abortion rights

Physicians as authorities

The Supreme Court's first appearance in abortion policy: challenges to the Comstock Law

Margaret Sanger: advocate for women's reproductive rights

Physicians and the contraception and abortion movements

The U.S. Supreme Court acknowledges a right to privacy

Griswold v. Connecticut

Roe v. Wade

The intermediate years: protecting choice, denying rights

Neutral no more: Webster v. Reproductive Health Services

Casey: supplanting doctor authority with state authority

Stenberg v. Carhart: a footnote or a shift?

Abortion restrictions in the states

Practical barriers to abortion access

Location of providers

Competition and profit margins

The graying of a generation

Anti-abortion extremism and violence

Pro-choice advocates respond

A lack of education

Pharmacists as roadblocks to abortion

Statutory barriers to abortion access

Illegal and unenforceable barriers

Legal barriers

Barriers to funding

State protections for abortion

Patterns of restriction and protection

State protections for the fetus

Abortion and the federal government

Constitutional amendment or statutory ban?

Banning federal funding of abortion

The pro-life movement begins to organize

The pro-life movement sets the terms of the debate

A new strategy for a new century: persuade, protect, and prohibit

Persuade

Statutory protection of the fetus

Prohibit

Nomination politics and the making of a new Supreme Court

Pro-choice, pro-life, or pro-birth? : the partisan maneuverings of abortion politics

Party lines converge

General party lines

The parties organize to win elections

The 1960s: the parties of Lincoln and Douglas

The 1970s: new coalitions for new positions

The 1980s: the parties change sides

The 1990s: Republican loyalty and Democratic disunity

2000 and beyond: party platforms dictate policy

Party in government

Crossing party lines on funding

Partisan loyalty in prohibition and fetal protection

Democratic disunity, Republican unity

The 2004 election: abortion as a wedge issue?

The pendulum swings

Where could we go from here?

The physicians return

Women's self-help movement

The religious left

Landmark contraception and abortion cases

National political party platforms statements on abortion.