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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Abortion Politics in American States -- 1. Pennsylvania: The Impact of Party Organization and Religious Lobbying -- 2. Minnesota: Shifting Sands on a ""Challenger"" Beachhead? -- 3. Maryland: A Law Codifying Roe v. Wade -- 4. Louisiana: Religious Politics and the Pro-Life Cause -- 5. Arizona: Pro-Choice Success in a Conservative, Republican State -- 6. North Carolina: One Liberal Law in the South -- 7. Ohio: Steering toward Middle Ground -- 8. Washington: Abortion Policymaking through Initiative

Abortion Politics: Public Policy in Cross Cultural Perspective focuses on current abortion policy and practice in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan and aims to provide a comprehensive, stimulating and balanced picture of current abortion policy in a cross-cultural perspective. The contributors deal with comparative abortion policy including recent developments in Ireland, Germany and Eastern Europe.

In this analysis of federal court cases relying upon the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, the author finds that the pro-life movement in the United States has suffered repeated losses in abortion litigation. Additionally, her research indicates that, despite claims to the contrary, the pro-life movement is a loose collection of underfunded and understaffed public interest organizations. The pro-choice forces are vastly more powerful in abortion litigation, have superior organization and financing, and include not only public interest groups but also private interests such as clinics and professi.

This study of "birth technologies" such as amniocentesis and ultrasound explores their relationship to law in a correlative area, abortion politics, in order to assess the indirect influence of politics on technology. We begin nearly twenty years ago when these technologies were emerging and trace the story to the early 1990s. Our analysis suggests that abortion politics, filtered through such activities as grant-making and basic research, influenced the development of these technologies. We therefore propose a model of policy that includes both the relatively independent march of scientific research and technical applications and the operation of constraining forces, like political interests, on science and technique. Here, law is a vehicle that itself becomes illuminated as both politics and substance.