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  title info:
    title: Defenders of the unborn
    sub title: the pro-life movement before Roe v. Wade
  name:
    name part: Williams, Daniel K.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 365 pages)
  abstract: 'Defenders of the Unborn' traces the history of the campaign against abortion in the United States from the 1930s through the 1970s and argues that the pro-life movement (or anti-abortion movement) originated as a human rights campaign grounded in the principles of New Deal liberalism. The book explains how a campaign for the 'right to life' for the unborn that began as a Catholic movement used the language of universal human rights to expand its appeal to Protestants and a few Orthodox Jews in the early 1970s and argues that the movement's liberal ideology contributed to its political success.
  abstract: "On April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law. Emotions ran high, reflecting the nation's extreme polarization over abortion. Yet the divisions did not fall neatly along partisan or religious lines-the assembled protesters were far from a bunch of fire-breathing culture warriors. In Defenders of the Unborn, Daniel K. Williams reveals the hidden history of the pro-life movement in America, showing that a cause that many see as reactionary and anti-feminist began as a liberal crusade for human rights. For decades, the media portrayed the pro-life movement as a Catholic cause, but by the time of the Central Park rally, that stereotype was already hopelessly outdated. The kinds of people in attendance at pro-life rallies ranged from white Protestant physicians, to young mothers, to African American Democratic legislators-even the occasional member of Planned Parenthood. One of New York City's most vocal pro-life advocates was a liberal Lutheran minister who was best known for his civil rights activism and his protests against the Vietnam War. The language with which pro-lifers championed their cause was not that of conservative Catholic theology, infused with attacks on contraception and women's sexual freedom. Rather, they saw themselves as civil rights crusaders, defending the inalienable right to life of a defenseless minority: the unborn fetus. It was because of this grounding in human rights, Williams argues, that the right-to-life movement gained such momentum in the early 1960s. Indeed, pro-lifers were winning the battle before Roe v. Wade changed the course of history. Through a deep investigation of previously untapped archives, Williams presents the untold story of New Deal-era liberals who forged alliances with a diverse array of activists, Republican and Democrat alike, to fight for what they saw as a human rights cause. Provocative and insightful, Defenders of the Unborn is a must-read for anyone…
  table of contents: A clash of values -- The political fight begins -- Initial losses -- National Right to Life -- "Abortion on demand" -- A new image -- Progressive politics -- National battle -- After Roe -- Epilogue.
  note: Daniel K. Williams.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Pro-life movement
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Abortion
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Abortion
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Abortion
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Christianity
  subject:
    topic: Mouvement pour le respect de la vie
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Avortement
    topic: Aspect moral
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Avortement
    topic: Politique gouvernementale
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: Infrastructure
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Abortion
    topic: Government policy
  subject:
    topic: Abortion
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Abortion
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Christianity
  subject:
    topic: Pro-life movement
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Schwangerschaftsabbruch
  subject:
    topic: Bewegung
  subject:
    topic: Lebensschutz
  subject:
    geographic: USA
  classification: HQ767.5.U5 W556 2016eb
  classification: 363.460973
  classification: HIS036060 REL012130 REL012110
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    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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