Date of Award
1990
Document Type
Honors Thesis (Open Access)
Department
Colby College. Philosophy Dept.
Advisor(s)
Debra Campbell
Second Advisor
Thomas Longstaff
Abstract
This investigation shall focus upon the issue of legalized abortion. I believe the complex controversy surrounding the issue of abortion, demonstrates more clearly than any other single contemporary issue the social, political, moral and religious forces working for change in a post-Reagan America. I shall examine in depth the theology, writings, strategies and activities of those Americans who seek to express themselves and their beliefs in religious, or religiously supported interest groups.
The current debate surrounding abortion legislation lends itself to several forms of analysis: religious, political, sociological, etc. I will write from the perspective of a student of religion. I shall focus more upon the religious, moral and theological conviction-s of the abortion activists than upon their constitutional right to free speech or assembly. I shall give more attention to denominational structures and church/state relations than to the structuring of representative districts and democratic theory.
Keywords
Thoological Voices, PAC Politics, Abortion, Reagan, Religious activism
Recommended Citation
Barber, Kenneth W., "Theological Voices. PAC Politics and the Abortion Debate: Abortion Politics and the Reagan Era" (1990). Honors Theses. Paper 465.https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses/465
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