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The intensity of opposition to legal abortion in the US is described, & reasons behind the movement to repeal abortion reforms are analyzed & compared to reform movements in GB. The radical climate of the late 1960s & early 1970s favored liberalization of abortion statutes in the US, as did the attitudes of US MDs & influential Catholics. The progress of abortion reforms in GB was more moderate, a situation caused by the limited power of interpretation of English courts, the greater restrictions on clinical practice in GB, & the greater tendency toward traditionalism among British MDs. However, the increasing strength of conservative politics in the US in the late 1970s was reflected in the increased strength & organization of antiabortion sentiments, & in the movement to press for a Constitutional amendment supported by "right to life" & other antiabortion groups. D. Dunseath.

Analyzed is the development of abortion as a political issue. The description of relevant interest groups, public attitudes, & abortion related political activity in a variety of categories contributes to an assessment of an issue that is surely on many people's minds. In spite of its visibility, the abortion issue is not politically 'mature' in the sense that ideologically consistent `liberal' or 'conservative' views on the matter have emerged. As far as the issue's relationship to population is concerned, most Americans do not think of it in that sense at all. Demographers, ZPG leaders, & a few others may see the obvious connection between population patterns & abortion policies, but most Americans deal with the abortion issue on a more individualistic, moralistic level. AA.