Title Women against abortion : inside the largest moral reform movement of the twentieth century / Karissa Haugeberg

Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Series Women, gender, and sexuality in American history Women, gender, and sexuality in American history. Contents Introduction -- The emergence of crisis pregnancy centers -- The invention of postabortion syndrome -- Feminist Catholic women's grassroots antiabortion activism -- Women and the rescue movement -- Women and lethal violence in the antiabortion movement -- Epilogue: the legacies of women's work in the antiabortion movement Summary "Women from remarkably diverse religious, social, and political backgrounds made up the rank-and-file of anti-abortion activism. Empowered by--yet in many cases scared of--the changes wrought by feminism, they founded grassroots groups, developed now-familiar strategies and tactics, and gave voice to the movement's moral and political dimensions. Drawing on oral histories and interviews with prominent figures, Karissa Haugeberg examines American women's fight against abortion. Beginning in the 1960s, she looks at Marjory Mecklenburg's attempt to shift the attention of anti-abortion leaders from the rights of fetuses to the needs of pregnant women. Moving forward she traces the grassroots work of Catholic women, including Juli Loesch and Joan Andrews, and their encounters with the influx of evangelicals into the movement. She also looks at the activism of evangelical Protestant Shelley Shannon, a prominent pro-life extremist of the 1990s. Throughout, Haugeberg explores important questions such as the ways people fused religious conviction with partisan politics, activists' rationalizations for lethal violence, and how women claimed space within an unshakably patriarchal movement. A balanced treatment of an explosive topic, Women against Abortion is an overdue portrait of the foot soldiers behind a potent American cause."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Pro-life movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1900 - 1999. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects Pro-life movement Women -- Political activity United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017002170 ISBN 9780252099717 0252099710

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