The Colour of the Unborn: Anti-Abortion and Anti-Bussing Politics in Michigan, United States, 1967-1973.
This article uses a 1972 statewide referendum on abortion reform in Michigan to examine the links between anti-abortion and anti-bussing politics in the early 1970s and the centrality of child protection rhetoric to both struggles. It spotlights how activists and their ideas about race migrated from...
| Published in: | Gender & History Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 351 - 379 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2014
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