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The anti-abortion campaign in the USA is gaining momentum with the prospect that the Roe v. Wade decision may be overturned. This book traces the evolution of the anti-abortion lobby, how it became so influential in Republican politics, and the splits that have recently emerged in its ranks.
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出版社周刊评论
The rocket-like rise of the potent, well-organized right-wing anti-abortion political faction, begun in the early 1970s, and its subsequent falling off are traced in this lively, authoritative account. From an impassioned pro-choice perspective McKeegan, executive director of the Humboldt County, Calif., Planned Parenthood Association, contends that a clique of conservatives seized on the abortion issue to take over the Republican Party, cleverly using direct mailings to evangelical religious believers, gun enthusiasts and anti-abortion advocates to draw capital and votes. She tracks the ups and downs of those who got on the bandwagon, from fund-raiser Richard Viguerie (wealthy owner of an electronic publishing printing firm) to Conservative Caucus founder Howard Phillips to George Bush. The main point is that the marriage of the Republican Party with anti-abortion forces was in large part one of convenience and that many Republicans, afraid of losing votes in coming elections, are distancing themselves from the right-to-life movement as pro-choice advocates make the issue a prominent one on state ballots in the '90s. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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In an informative if partisan work, Planned Parenthood official McKeegan argues that the antiabortion forces--whose skillful focus on the issue aided Ronald Reagan's 1980 Presidential victory--have lost both their cohesiveness and the battle to ban abortion. McKeegan portrays abortion foes both as ``lacking substantial support among mainstream Americans'' and as hopelessly diverse, encompassing right-wing evangelical Protestants and liberal Catholics. She demonstrates how the Reagan Administration attempted to implement its antiabortion policy by undermining federally supported family-planning programs and appointing antiabortion federal judges. While this strategy enjoyed short-term success, the ideological differences within the diverse antiabortion coalition, McKeegan says, gradually enervated it. The antiabortion factions agreed on the narrow issue of abortion but, according to the author, fundamental differences in philosophy emerged among them in the latter half of the 1980's: Right-wing fundamentalists emphasized a more broadly conservative social agenda, while liberal Catholics espoused an ``ethic of life'' that would promote education and alleviation of poverty. These tensions have, in McKeegan's view, caused the virtual collapse of the conservative antiabortion consensus. Furthermore, she argues, a generation gap has emerged on this issue as younger voters show an increasing willingness to accept abortion rights. While recent judicial decisions indicate that the Supreme Court is willing to reexamine its holding in Roe v. Wade, McKeegan asserts that prohibition or criminalization of abortion may have become politically unacceptable. An adroit recounting of the abortion controversies of the 1980's and a seemingly accurate assessment of the demise of the antiabortion coalition.
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The emotional issue of abortion was chosen as a political tool in the late 1970s by a cadre of ultraconservative Republicans to woo away disgruntled Democrats and snare conservative, evangelical voters to vote in a Republican government. It worked. This history of ten years in American political life reads like a tactical war account. Pro-life politicians and activists spent unaccountable money and time swatting the irritating and dangerous tactics thrown at them by an organized group of zealous politicians whose ultimate goal was to control the U.S. government. McKeegan, a California Planned Parenthood Association official, also describes the conservative war against family planning, population aid to Third World countries, and AIDS education. Packed with facts, names, dates, court cases, studies, and quotations, McKeegan's book should be required reading for every concerned voter in this election year. No one reading this account of political manipulation will come away without the impression that politics can be a very disturbing game. Highly recommended.-- Barbara Keen, Spokane Community Coll. Lib., Wash. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.