ISSN:
2040-4867
Content:
In the beginning of the contemporary abortion debates in the 1960s and early 1970s, over one thousand Protestant religious leaders saw the issue of expanding abortion access as an important social problem that they should engage in civil disobedience to address. Before the U.S. Supreme Court decriminalized abortion across the country in their 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, hundreds of predominantly Protestant clergy helped connect hundreds of thousands of women with doctors willing to provide often-illegal abortions. These clergy dedicated significant time and energy and risked prosecution to develop the extensive social networks needed to achieve their goal: abortion access for women. This article sheds light on the factors that influenced this mobilization of clergy into expanding abortion access in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While some has been written describing the Clergy Consultation Service, this history has not yet been put into conversation with sociological theory explaining why...
In:
A journal of church and state, Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 1959, 63(2021), 3, Seite 461-484, 2040-4867
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volume:63
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year:2021
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number:3
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pages:461-484
Language:
English
Keywords:
Schwangerschaftsabbruch
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Protestantismus
;
Gewaltloser Widerstand
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USA
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