The War on Choice

The Right-wing Attack on Women's Rights and how to Fight Back

Author: Gloria Feldt
Secondary Author: Laura Fraser
ISBN: 9780553382921

Accessible and impassioned, here is an eye-opening look at the right wing strategy to reverse the gains American women have made over the past 50 years. The War on Choice chronicles the actions being taken at the highest levels of government to turn back the clock on women's rights. With the White House acting in anti-choice lockstep with the majorities in both House and Senate, religious extremists are now in key decision-making posts, our federal judiciary is filled with recent appointees whose values are drastically out of step with the pro-choice sentiments of the majority of the American people, abstinence-only sex education is now the rule, ideology has trumped science in domestic and global health policy, and the Supreme Court balance in favor of reproductive freedoms is perilously close to toppling. But while many of the individual facts are known, no one until now has connected all the dots and drawn the Big Picture that shows exactly how radical and how successful this quiet

Publisher: Bantam Books
Publish Date: 2004

Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Abortion & Birth Control

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Reproductive Issues)