THE POLITICS OF ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
Comparative
Politics
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Gregory S. Mahler, Editor
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THE POLITICS OF ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
A Comparative Study
Raymond Tatalovich
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First published 1997 by M.E. Sharpe
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tatalovich, Raymond.
The politics of abortion in the United States and Canada :
a comparative study / by Raymond Tatalovich.
p. cm. (Comparative politics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56324-417-9 (c). ISBN 1-56324-418-7 (p)
1. AbortionPolitical aspectsUnited States.
2. AbortionPolitical aspectsCanada.
3. AbortionGovernment policyUnited States.
4. AbortionGovernment policyCanada.
5. Pro-choice movementUnited States.
6. Pro-choice movementCanada.
7. Pro-life movementUnited States.
8. Pro-life movementCanada.
I. Title.
II. Series: Comparative politics (Armonk, N.Y.)
HQ767.5.U5T38
1996
363.460973dc20
9623923
CIP
ISBN 13: 9781563244186 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 9781563244179 (hbk)
To Mother,
Her Compassion, Her Honor, Her Love
Ray
Friends and colleagues, some current and some past, from both sides of the forty-ninth parallel were instrumental in my ability to produce this study. Foremost I acknowledge one of the premier scholars of Canadian abortion politics, Professor F.L. Morton, of the University of Calgary, who provided an extraordinarily detailed review of my manuscript for M.E. Sharpe. An intellectual debt also is owed to Professor T. Alexander Smith, of the University of Tennessee. Not only do I rely heavily on his important work The Comparative Policy Process (1975) in laying out the process hypotheses I test, but Alex also agreed to review my introductory and concluding chapters. My meeting Professor Sharon L. Sutherland, of Carleton University, at a conference in Mexico City was fortuitous indeed, because she has the reputation of being a keen observer of Canadian bureaucratic politics. She graciously offered me her interpretations over the course of this project and in addition referred me to her personal contacts within the Canadian government. Thanks, Sharon, and you too, Warren. In Mexico City I also met Professor Robert J. Jackson and his wife and coauthor, Doreen; their major textbook on Canadian government and politics was a ready reference by my side.
I integrated into this work research on abortion in Canada that I coauthored elsewhere with Byron W. Daynes, of Brigham Young University, E. Marvin Overby, of the University of Mississippi, and Donley T. Studlar, of West Virginia University. Allow me to extend a special thank-you to Routledge for giving me permission to reprint , which appeared in Donley T. Studlar and Raymond Tatalovich, Abortion Policy in the United States and Canada: Do Institutions Matter? in Marianne Githens and Dorothy McBride Stetson, eds., Abortion Politics: Public Policy in Cross Cultural Perspective (New York: Routledge, 1996). I was also the sole author or a coauthor of conference papers based upon my preliminary research for various chapters: Judicial Activism, Legal Abortion, and Policy Outcomes: Comparing the U.S. and Canadian Experiences was presented at the 1992 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association; Federalism and the Delivery of Abortion Services: Comparing the U.S. and Canada was presented at the 1993 annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association; Patterns of Abortion Voting in the Canadian House of Commons was presented at the 1993 annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association; Moral Conflict, Post-Materialism, and the Mobilization of Interests: Abortion Politics in Canada and the United States was presented at the 1995 annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association; and Church and Abortion in the United States and Canada: Patterns of Rhetoric and Mobilization was presented at the 1995 annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.
What started this book was a focused research project on abortion implementation in Canada, supported under the 19911992 Faculty Research Grant Program of the Government of Canada, and which stimulated me to think about doing a more comprehensive and comparative case study. What enabled me to finish the project, without further delays, was a grant of academic leave with pay from Loyola University of Chicago during the fall 1995 semester. Loyola University of Chicago also awarded me a Small Research Grant to subsidize a third research trip to Ottawa in August 1995, when I visited the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Medical Association, and the National Library of Canada and collected other research odds and ends.
Two more individuals were significant others for me because they kept the faith despite my slowed progress on this manuscript. In 1992 Professor Gregory Mahler, of the University of Mississippi, invited me to include this cross-cultural analysis in his Comparative Politics Series for M.E. Sharpe. And my former classmate at the University of Chicago, Patricia A. Kolb, editor extraordinaire at M.E. Sharpe, saw this project through to a successful completion. Thanks, Greg and Pat, for being there when I needed you.
