Mobilizing on Abortion: Social Networks, Civil Disobedience, and the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, 1967–1973
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 decrimi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 3, Pages: 461-484 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Abortion
/ Protestantism
/ Non-violent resistance
/ USA
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America SA Church law; state-church law |
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| Summary: | 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... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csab003 |