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Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade 1st Edition

by Daniel K. Williams (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars 6 customer reviews
ISBN-13: 978-0199391646
ISBN-10: 0199391645
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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (January 7, 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0199391645
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199391646
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 1.1 x 6.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #423,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 starsThe complex history of the pro-life movement
By Paul Mastin TOP 1000 REVIEWER on January 6, 2016
Format: Hardcover
Sure, after Roe v. Wade (1973) there was a lot of pro-life activism. But where did these people come from? As Daniel K. Williams writes in Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade (Plus Some After) (that's my addendum to the title), anti-abortion activism was alive and well before Roe v. Wade, and it may not have looked like what you would expect.

In the first half of the 20th century, pro-life activism began "as a defense of human rights for the unborn." The first activists, according to Williams, were not political conservatives, but "people who supported New Deal liberalism and government aid to the poor, and who viewed their campaign as an effort to extend state protection to the rights of a defenseless minority (in this case, the unborn)."

Many of those favoring fewer restrictions on abortion did so on utilitarian grounds: women die because of illegal abortions, poor women don't have access to safe abortions, women should have the option to abort a baby with birth defects, families who can't afford to raise children should be able to choose to abort, etc. Williams makes little of the inherently racist and classist attitude that drove much of the abortion rights movement, but it's there.

Catholics were the most vocal in resisting the move toward more liberal abortion laws. They prophetically pointed out that therapeutic abortion would inevitably lead to elective abortion, or abortion on demand.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsVALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF ABORTION LAW IN THE US
By MARLIN R. on April 27, 2016
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Informative and interesting ; the author provides a thorough and objective narrative of legal attempts to liberalize abortion law and the opposition to them in the 20th century.
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By William A. Poehler on February 5, 2016
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An accurate telling of the pro-life movement's early history. Very well researched!
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