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Sexing Harris: The Law And Politics Of Defunding Planned Parenthood, Mary Ziegler
Sexing Harris: The Law And Politics Of Defunding Planned Parenthood, Mary Ziegler
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The movement to defund Planned Parenthood has opened a new front in the abortion wars. At the state and national level, anti-abortion organizations have campaigned successfully for new legal limitations on Medicaid or Title X reimbursement for Planned Parenthood. Significantly, legal restrictions reach not only abortion but also other services like contraception and cancer screenings. North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Indiana are among the states to have introduced such bans, and the U.S. House of Representatives approved one before the proposal died in the Senate in April 2011.
At first, the novelty of the movement seems to lie in its open …