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A review of abortion polls illustrates the fact that pollsters & secondary analysts face a difficult task when trying to measure & describe public opinion about complex issues over time, particularly when the objects being measured are court decisions, laws, or policies whose implications, interpretations, & practical effects evolve & cannot be anticipated when survey items are framed. Even carefully crafted items can be rendered invalid by changing circumstances, thus posing problems for trend analysis. Several approaches that seek to measure public opinion of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, & which yield conflicting results, are discussed. It is noted that items characterizing the court's ruling as permitting abortion "during the first three months of pregnancy," or the abortion decision itself as one made "by a woman & her physician" do not reflect current reality adequately. 2 Tables, 32 References. AA

A year ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Since then, 25 states, home to 48% of the U.S. population, have succeeded in banning or significantly restricting abortion, or are moving toward that goal.

Restrictions. Madame Restell ; Margaret Sanger ; A crime ; Sherri Chessen ; Estelle Griswold -- Reform. Clergy ; Right to life ; Repeal ; Courts ; Jane Roe ; Jane Hodgson ; Federal court ; Jane -- Roe v. Wade. Appeal ; Briefs ; Oyez, oyez, oyez ; Deliberations ; Roe, again ; Opinions ; The decision -- After Roe. Politics ; The Supreme Court, again ; Pushback ; Restrictions.

This January marked the fortieth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the United States. In ways not anticipated by the coalition of physicians and feminist health activists who fought to legalize abortion in the years leading up to Roe, the abortion conflict remains the most divisive issue in American domestic politics. More than any other issue, the abortion war symbolizes the still contested concerns originally brought forward by second-wave feminists in the late 1960s—the changing relationship between the genders, the place of women in the public sphere, the legitimacy of sexual activity separated from procreation. What have been the benefits and costs of this landmark Supreme Court decision?

'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