4 articles
Williams traces the decline of pro-life Democrats and the partisan realignment of abortion politics. He argues that institutional, electoral and ideological changes gradually made opposition to abortion far less viable within the Democratic coalition.
Read →This past week was not a good week for human life, as far as American policy was concerned.
Read →Williams argues historically that Roe v. Wade was not an unavoidable consequence of twentieth-century political liberalism. He traces competing liberal, religious and legal arguments about abortion to show that the coalition supporting legalized abortion developed contingently.
Read →Williams examines the relationship between early twentieth-century Protestant reform movements and eugenics. He connects that history to later debates about abortion, disability and the moral limits of social reform.
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