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A private matter : RU 486 and the abortion crisis / Lawrence Lader.
- Title
- A private matter : RU 486 and the abortion crisis / Lawrence Lader.
- Author
- Lader, Lawrence
- Publication
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1995.
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- Additional Authors
- Baird, Bill
- Description
- 254 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- An early pioneer of abortion rights recounts the struggle over a pill that could almost completely remove the matter from the public sphere. Lader (Politics, Power, and the Church, 1987, etc.), one of the early founders of the National Abortion Rights Action League, gives a concise history of the abortion rights movement over the last 30 years and explains how RU-486, ''the abortion pill,'' fits into it. He narrates the growth of grassroots support for the repeal of abortion laws, the success of those efforts, and the challenges from religious extremists-which have culminated in the state of siege in which many family-planning clinics find themselves today. He also chronicles French scientists' discovery of a safe oral abortifacient and the attempt of abortion-rights activists, including himself, to bring it to the US-efforts that included smuggling in a Chinese copy of the pill. RU-486 remains unavailable in this country, due to government inaction and the religious rights' insistence on boycotting any participating company.
- Subject
- Lader, Lawrence
- National Abortion Rights Action League
- Roussel Uclaf
- United States. Food and Drug Administration
- Abortion, Legal
- Abortifacient Agents, Steroidal
- Mifepristone
- Abortifacient Agents, Steroidal
- Abortion > Social aspects > United States
- Abortion > Law and legislation > United States
- Mifepristone > Social aspects > United States
- Pro-choice movement
- Mifepristone > United States > History > Legislation
- Abortifacient Agents, Nonsteroidal
- Abortifacient Agents
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Legislation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Eleanor Smeal -- 1. Causes and Effects in Abortion Rights -- 2. The Sanger Factor -- 3. Launching an Idea: Abortion Rights -- 4. Desperate Women -- 5. The Big Leap in Abortion Rights -- 6. Impossible Victories: Abortion Rights (1969-1973) -- 7. Perilous Years (1975-1990) -- 8. RU 486: The Next Essential Step -- 9. Challenging the RU 486 Ban -- 10. Making an American Abortion Pill -- 11. A Dangerous Game: Delaying the Pill -- 12. Abortion and the Population Problem -- 13. Abortion Rights and the Stand Against Compromise -- 14. Violence and Blood (1993 and 1994) -- 15. Methotrexate: Another Abortion Drug, Another Choice for Women -- 16. More Clinic Deaths -- 17. The Crisis: 1995.
- ISBN
- 1573920126 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^95020257^
- OCLC
- 32549458
- SCSB-10466473
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library