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The street politics of abortion : speech, violence, and America's culture wars / Joshua C. Wilson.

by Wilson, Joshua C., author.

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Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, c2013.

Abortion -- Political aspects -- United States.

Abortion services -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Freedom of speech -- United States.

Demonstrations -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Pro-life movement -- United States.

9780804785341 (paperback : alkaline paper) :

0804785341 (paperback : alkaline paper)

Cultural lives of law.

xi, 244 pages ; 23 cm.

Abortion politics, legal power, and storytelling -- A common occurrence : Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo v. Williams -- Going big : Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York -- From litigation to legislation : Hill v. Colorado -- Limited in victory, enabled in defeat -- Degrees of separation -- Lessons from the street politics of abortion.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to what had been a comparatively low-profile social conflict, the decision mobilized a wave of anti-abortion protests and ignited a heated struggle that continues to this day. Picking up the story in the contentious decades that followed Roe, The Street Politics of Abortion is the first book to consider the rise and fall of clinic-front protests through the 1980s and 1990s, the most visible and contentious period in U.S.

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