This article explores the context within which abortion law and discourse in Northern Ireland must be situated and understood, relying in part on post-modern insights into the wider and long-term implications of feminists engaging law and by examining the strategies employed in Northern Ireland around the issue of abortion. In 2001, the Family Planning Association (Northern Ireland) took legal ...

Japan, known as a pro-choice country in terms of abortion, is currently facing the increase of “selective abortions” thanks to new prenatal screening. Efforts to restrict proliferation of new technology has not been successful and it is likely that Japan will turn pro-life by strictly enforcing the Maternity Protection Act (MPA), which prohibits abortions due to “fetal cause”.

This paper quantifies the impact of environmentally-concerned constituents, as measured by original data on environmental group membership by district, on congressional voting. The new measure of constituency interest enables us to assess the role of constituents in a particular policy area for the first time. In general, members of Congress vote more pro-environmental when they have more membe...

The ethics of abortion considers whether is immoral. Pro-choice philosophers think that it not immoral, while pro-life is. axiology world would be better if the pro-choice or position right. While much attention has been given to abortion, there no abortion. In this article, I seek change that. consider various arguments for thinking our correct, ultimately concluding This unfortunate, however,...

The Creation of an Endangered Species: Party Nonconformists of the U.S. Senate* Richard Fleisher Fordham University Jon R. Bond Texas A&M University Party nonconformists--that is, moderate to conservative Democrats and moderate to liberal Republicans who had policy preferences different from the mainstream of their party--have largely disappeared from the Senate. As nonconformists disappeared f...

Title of Dissertation: SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL SERVICES IN WOMEN’S PREGNANCY DECISIONMAKING: POLITICAL AND PROGRAMMATIC IMPLICATIONS Laura Selena Hussey, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor James G. Gimpel, Department of Government and Politics This dissertation empirically evaluates the argument that welfare state expansion will reduce abortion. Its central question concerns the...

Feminists and religious conservatives across the globe have increasingly turned to courts in their battles over abortion. Yet while a significant literature analyzes legal mobilization on abortion issues, it tends to focus predominantly on domestic scenarios. In this article, we consider the effects of this contentious engagement of pro-choice and anti-abortion movements in international human ...

This article investigates how a key stratum of the partisan elite—party activists—have been positioned across time and policy issues. We examine extent to which activists have polarized symmetrically or asymmetrically find that only on issue abortion has one party’s (Republicans) notably more than other’s. The also analyzes party activist proximity mass public’s preferences finds Democrats are ...

Over the past 75 years, common stocks performed better under Democrats, while U.S. government bonds and Treasury (T) bills performed better under Republicans. Using a mean-variance framework, we find that Democrats provide better risk-reward opportunities for portfolios weighted toward stocks, while Republicans provide better tradeoffs for portfolios weighted toward government bonds and T-bills...

The abortion debates are characterized by confrontation, sides polarized one against the other, as James Taranto notes in his essay on “The ‘Roe Effect’.” What is more, most agree, including Taranto, that Roe is a “study in unanticipated consequences.” In Taranto’s case, he defines that study as the “nexus between the practice of abortion and the politics of abortion.” Specifically, he analyzes...