Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America
Proposed Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America Books
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After World War II, U.S. policy experts–convinced that unchecked populace growth threatened global disaster–successfully lobbied bipartisan policy-makers in Washington to initiate federally-funded family plotting. In Proposed Consequences, Donald T. Critchlow skillfully chronicles how the government’s involvement in contraception and abortion evolved into one of the most bitter, supporter controversies in American political history.
The growth of the feminist movement in the late 1960s fundamentally altered the debate over the federal family plotting movement, shifting its focus from populace control directed by customary 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 contracted women the Constitutional aptly to legal abortion in 1973, what started as a bipartisan, silent revolution during the administrations of Kennedy and Johnson exploded into a contentious argument over sexuality, welfare, the role of women, and the breakdown of habitual family values. Proposed Consequences encompasses over four decades of political history, examining everything from the upshot of the Republican “moral revolution” during the Reagan and Bush years to the current culture wars as regards 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 plotting movement has indeed accomplished much in the way of its proposed goal–the reduction of populace growth in many parts of the world.
Written with authority, fresh insight, and impeccable research, Proposed Consequences skillfully unfolds the history of how the federal government found its way into the private bedrooms of the American family.Amazon.com Review
In Proposed Consequences, Donald Critchlow outlines how postwar federal family-plotting policy came to be a political hot potato costing over $700 million a year. The 65 pages of footnotes to the book reveal the welter of data–much of it previously unexamined or recently released–he draws on to make this meticulously detailed monograph. The study operates at many levels and focuses primarily, though not exclusively, on the United States. Critchlow examines how “birth control” became “family plotting” and discusses the fight over whether to include abortion below that rubric. He traces the ways in which federal family-plotting policy has been influenced both by individuals like John D. Rockefeller III and by mass mobilization of broadcast interests such as the pro- and anti-abortion lobbies. And he sets all this in the context of changing social, political, and cultural norms and mores on sex, family, women’s rights, and the role of government. Not compulsory reading for interested scholars and policymakers. –Julia Riches
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When one wants a history of how the modern world is shaped, too often it is found in dull academic books or in lurid conspiracy theory language.
This book gives a thoughtful discussion of the whos, whys, and hows of the social policies that aided the thought of populace control, with its proposed consequences of increasing wealth and wellbeing, and its unintended consequences of undermining family life.
For in rank, I rate it a five. It is a clear and well written discussion of this often controversial topic. Unlike the more politicized books of this nature, it is not an exciting read. But it is clearly written so the average reader would find it helpful.
Rating: 4 / 5