SWMS 210mgw Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: New Religious Movement, Margaret Sanger, Abortion Debate
Document Summary
For next week: gender in sports media: messner/cooky, messner-montez de oca. Only 29% in favor of overturning roe v wade. 57% oppose a law prohibiting health clinics that provide abortion services from receiving any federal funds. 69% in favor of having a 24 hour waiting period before a woman can have an abortion. 71% in favor for requiring parental consent for abortions under 18. Personhood increases as the baby develops: growing opposition to abortions in 2nd, 3rd trimester. 50% favor, 46% oppose law requiring women seeking an abortion to be shown an ultrasound image of her fetus. Pre 1850s: most major religions allow abortion practices, prohibited after quickening - when the pregnant woman can feel movement in the fetus, midwives were in charge of overseeing abortions. Post 1850s: medical practitioners led anti-abortion movement, not clergy. New religious movements: anti-vice crusaders, condemning illicit sex especially in the context of urbanization, abortion enables vice.
