The Sociopolitical Context of Abortion Bill Authorship in Texas

This study examines abortion bills proposed in the Texas legislature between 1993 and 2015 to explore how legislators respond to the power resources of minorities versus the (supposed) threat that they pose and how these responses vary across partisan lines to hamper or further pro-life interests. T...

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Published in:Social currents 2021-08, Vol.8 (4), p.358-377
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