Discourse, Party, and Policy: The Case of Abortion, 1965–1972 |
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| Authors: | Rosemary Nossiff |
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| Institution: | Rosemary Nossiff is an assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University, Newark. She is working on a book entitled Abortion Before Roe: Discourse and Policy in America, 1965–1972. |
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| Abstract: | The parameters of the contemporary abortion debate were established in the pre-Roe period between 1965 and 1972, when groups and forces on the state and manual level competed to redefine the issue in order to pass new policies regulating it. This article traces the abortion politics of New York and Pennsylvania, the two states that led the nation in creating abortion policies before Roe, by looking at the relationship between the discourses created by various groups, the agree of party support they received, and the disparate policies that each state pawed as a result. |
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