Ideology and Politics at Mexico City: The United States at the 1984 International Conference on Population

Finkle, Jason L.; Crane, Barbara B.

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“…Nevertheless, Reagan's policies were to cement a new orthodoxy about global overpopulation and development strategies. Unlike his republican predecessor, Richard Nixon, Reagan considered concerns about global population size to be “vastly exaggerated” [5]. In the same year, the US surprised the family planning world by abdicating its previous leadership in the effort to promote global family planning, at the International Conference on Population, held in Mexico City in 1984.…”

Section: Concern For the Third World Fadesmentioning

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Human Carrying Capacity and Human Health

Butler

2004

PLoS Med

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Section: Concern For the Third World Fadesmentioning

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Human Carrying Capacity and Human Health

Butler

2004

PLoS Med

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“…Here, Ronald Reagan's administration announced a new policy prohibiting U.S. funding for any organization outside the U.S. that provided abortions or advice concerning abortions (Green 1993). Reagan had previously dismissed population concerns, expressed skepticism concerning the need for birth control, and declared abortion murder (Finkle and Crane 1985). The United States, which liberalized abortion via Roe v. Wade in 1973, began actively discouraging abortion globally in the 1980s.…”

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Abortion Liberalization in World Society, 1960–2009

Boyle

Kim

Longhofer

2015

American Journal of Sociology

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Controversy sets abortion apart from other issues studied by world society theorists, who consider the tendency for policies institutionalized at the global level to diffuse across very different countries. We conduct an event history analysis of the spread (however limited) of abortion liberalization policies from 1960 to 2009. After identifying three dominant frames (a women's rights frame, a medical frame, and a religious, natural family frame), we find that indicators of a scientific, medical frame show consistent association with liberalization of policies specifying acceptable grounds for abortion. Women's leadership roleshave a stronger and more consistent liberalizing effect than do countries' links to a global women's rights discourse. Somewhat different patterns emerge around the likelihood of adopting an additional policy, controlling for first policy adoption. Even as support for women's autonomy has grown globally, with respect to abortion liberalization, persistent, powerful frames compete at the global level, preventing robust policy diffusion.

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“…The Bucharest conference and the 1984 International Conference on Population held in Mexico City were full of recommendations to take a holistic developmental approach. 33 Cairo simply reaffirmed the near-consensus alluded to above between "developers" and "family planners. "…”

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The great population debates: how relevant are they for the 21st century?

Sinding

2000

Am J Public Health

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Two great debates--whether population growth is a problem and how to address the problem if one exists--dominated population policy discussions in the 20th century. The debate about whether pitted those who saw rapid population growth as a problem against those who believed the cries of alarm were false. The debate about how was conducted between advocates of the direct delivery of contraceptives through family planning programs and those who counseled a broader, more holistic approach. The debate about how was largely resolved by the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development at Cairo; the debate about whether remains unresolved. Environmentalists, ecologists, and physical scientists generally support the view that rapid population growth is harmful, but economists remain largely unconvinced. Contemporary declines in fertility and the end of the population crisis mentality of the mid- to late 20th century could, ironically, diminish public support for precisely those programs that have been responsible for the rapid fertility decline of the past 3 decades--programs that will be required to complete the "demographic transition" in those parts of the developing world where fertility remains very high.

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Ideology and Politics at Mexico City: The United States at the 1984 International Conference on Population

Cited by 66 publications

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Human Carrying Capacity and Human Health

Human Carrying Capacity and Human Health

Abortion Liberalization in World Society, 1960–2009

The great population debates: how relevant are they for the 21st century?

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