AFL-CIO, Reproductive Issues Committee, 1990

File — Box: 34, Folder: 25

Scope and Contents

See also AFL-CIO 1988-1990 List of committee members; summary of mail received by AFL-CIO on reproductive issues, mostly urging neutrality, April 1990; example of letters received by AFL-CIO, compiled April 1990; Policy Position of Coalition of Labor Union Women, April 1990; examples of correspondence from other organizations (Planned Parenthood, Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Archdiocese of Washington); examples of correspondence from Members of Congress; background information on abortion statistics and legal issues; adoption statistics; referred resolutions on abortion issues; current AFL-CIO policy on abortion; letters from national and international unions, citing divisiveness of issue; letters from AFL-CIO state federations; letters from AFL-CIO central bodies; United Food and Commercial Workers poll results on abortion; memo to Mazur from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell re meeting of the reproductive issues committee, status of ILGWU pro-choice resolution, with copy attached, April 9, 1990; possible compromise language in key areas; letter from Mazur endorsing “March for Women’s Lives” in Washington, D.C., March 2, 1989; anti-abortion brochures, poster; press release, United States Catholic Conference, “Humanity of Unborn Child Being Forgotten in Post-Webster Debate, Say U.S. Catholic Bishops,” August 9, 1989; fact sheet re March of Dimes funding policy, May 21, 1981; statement, “On ‘The Utmost Respect for Life,’” released October 12, 1984, signed by 62 obstetrician-gynecologists; article, “Redefining Abortion Politics,” First Things, March 1990; article, “Uncivil Liberties: A Descendant of Slaves Thinks about Abortion,” Alan Keyes, Crisis, March 1990; article, “A World Without Roe: How Different Would It Be?” New Republic, February 20, 1989; article, “Beyond the Legal Right,” Jason LaPerle, Washington Monthly, April 1989; Media Monitor, Center for Media and Public Affairs, “Roe v. Webster: Media Coverage of the Abortion Debate,” October 1989; “Liberals and the Class War over Abortion,” Commonweal, February 12, 1983; Connecticut Mutual Life Report on American Values in the ’80s: The Impact of Belief, 1981; editorial, “A New Ethic for Medicine and Society,” California Medicine, journal of the California Medical Association, Sept. 1970; newspaper clippings

Dates

1990

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

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