The Politics of Fertility Control: Family Planning and Abortion
                    Policies in the American States

McFarlane, Deborah R.; Meier, Kenneth J.

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“…29 A disconnect exists between sexuality beliefs and behaviors among Americans that greatly affects fertility control politics as well as the broad range of adverse reproductive outcomes. 30 For instance, many Americans believe that sexual activity should occur only between an adult married couple, yet 46% of young people report that they have had sexual intercourse. 31 The United States continually ranks highest among all industrialized countries in rates of unintended pregnancies and STIs.…”

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Approaching 4 Decades of Legislation in the National Family Planning Program: An Analysis of Title X's History From 1970 to 2008

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Family planning is an important public health activity. Title X (Pub L No. 91-572), enacted in 1970, remains the only national family planning program in the United States dedicated to providing voluntary and confidential services to all individuals. We conducted a thematic analysis of Title X's legislative history. Of 293 federal bills included in the legislative history, only 20 (6.8%) were enacted into law. Regardless of the proposed challenges, limited changes have been adopted. Except for technical amendments, bills involving restrictions accounted for the highest percentage of enacted bills, demonstrating efforts to undermine reproductive health rights. Title X requires political will and bipartisan support if it is to continue to protect individuals' reproductive rights.

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“…Since a relationship showing the effects of fiscal stress has not been significantly found at the state level when legalized gambling was defined as a morality issue and enticed the participation of religious groups (Fairbanks 1977), many scholars have substituted market variables like consumer demand and the number of suppliers to affect the likelihood of a policy adoption (Meier 1994; Meier and Johnson 1990; McFarlane and Meier 2001). However, if coupled with an economic definition, the local fiscal environment would contribute to the political competition over gambling policy in the form of mobilization on both sides of the issue.…”

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Lindaman

2007

Politics & Policy

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Concentrating at the local level, this study expands on existing research by measuring the political and economic determinants of gambling policy. Using data from the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, a larger data set of interest group activity, levels of saliency, fiscal stress, and leisure orientation were constructed. This article examines the political determinants from the morality policy framework and the economic variables that produce local gambling policy, their interaction effects, and the mediating variable of institutional structure. The evidence shows that political variables, or the determinants of morality policy, are significant predictors of local gambling codes and ordinances, whereas economic variables lack statistical significance. There are substantial interaction effects of interest groups and saliency, and when mediated by local government structure, unreformed governments experience more restrictive gambling policy.

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“…Over the last decade, the pace of legislation designed to restrict access to abortion services has accelerated [1]. At the same time, public funding for contraception has been singled out as the specific target of ideological opposition [2] and has become newly entangled in the abortion debate. Although abortion has long been controversial, this shift in attitudes toward contraception is both surprising and recent.…”

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Family planning policy in the United States: the converging politics of abortion and contraception

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Scott

2016

Contraception

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Objectives Following decades of mainstream bipartisan support, contraception has re-emerged as a controversial political issue in the United States. At the same time, opposition to abortion has intensified. State legislatures across the country have enacted highly visible policies limiting access to family planning. Perhaps the most striking example occurred in 2011 in Texas, when legislators instituted unprecedented requirements on abortion providers and cut public funding for contraception by two-thirds. Yet despite popular interpretations of this phenomenon as a simple byproduct of increasing partisan divisions, little is understood about the factors underlying such policy shifts. Study Design We fit Bayesian ideal-point models to analyze correlation patterns in record-vote data in the Texas House of Representatives in the 2003 and 2011 Legislatures. Both sessions had large Republican majorities and saw the passage of restrictive abortion bills, but they differed markedly with respect to public funding for contraception. Results We demonstrate that variation in voting on family-planning issues cannot be fully attributed to partisanship in either session. However, the politics of abortion and contraception have converged over time, and—at least for Democrats—the correlation between constituency characteristics and voting behavior on family-planning legislation is markedly higher in 2011 than in 2003. These shifts have been partly driven by legislators from high-poverty, majority Latino districts near the U.S.-Mexico border. Conclusions Recent dramatic shifts in family-planning policy go beyond simple partisan divisions. As the politics of abortion and contraception have converged, policies that are increasingly hostile to reproductive health and that disproportionately affect low-income minority women have emerged.

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The Politics of Fertility Control: Family Planning and Abortion Policies in the American States

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Approaching 4 Decades of Legislation in the National Family Planning Program: An Analysis of Title X's History From 1970 to 2008

Approaching 4 Decades of Legislation in the National Family Planning Program: An Analysis of Title X's History From 1970 to 2008

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Family planning policy in the United States: the converging politics of abortion and contraception

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