{"product_id":"intended-consequences-birth-control-abortion-and-the-federal-government-in-modern-america-9780195145939","title":"Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Donald T. Critchlow\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Policy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter World War II, U.S. policy experts--convinced that unchecked population growth threatened global disaster--successfully lobbied bipartisan policy-makers in Washington to initiate federally-funded family planning. In \u003cem\u003eIntended Consequences\u003c\/em\u003e, Donald T. Critchlow deftly chronicles how the government's involvement in contraception and abortion evolved into one of the most bitter, partisan controversies in American political history.\u003cbr\u003e The growth of the feminist movement in the late 1960s fundamentally altered the debate over the federal family planning movement, shifting its focus from population control directed by established interests in the philanthropic community to highly polarized pro-abortion and anti-abortion groups mobilized at the grass-roots level. And when the Supreme Court granted women the Constitutional right to legal abortion in 1973, what began as a bi-partisan, quiet revolution during the administrations of Kennedy and Johnson exploded into a contentious argument over sexuality, welfare, the role of women, and the breakdown of traditional family values. \u003cem\u003eIntended Consequences\u003c\/em\u003e encompasses over four decades of political history, examining everything from the aftermath of the Republican \"moral revolution\" during the Reagan and Bush years to the current culture wars concerning unwed motherhood, homosexuality, and the further protection of women's abortion rights. Critchlow's carefully balanced appraisal of federal birth control and abortion policy reveals that despite the controversy, the family planning movement has indeed accomplished much in the way of its intended goal--the reduction of population growth in many parts of the world.\u003cbr\u003e Written with authority, fresh insight, and impeccable research, \u003cem\u003eIntended Consequences\u003c\/em\u003e skillfully unfolds the history of how the federal government found its way into the private bedrooms of the American family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46896144908439,"sku":"9780195145939","price":7519.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780195145939.webp?v=1770357018","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/intended-consequences-birth-control-abortion-and-the-federal-government-in-modern-america-9780195145939","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}