Mary Segers

WSRP Research Associate 1985–86

 

Home institution

Rutgers University

Research project

American Catholics and Abortion: The Role of the American Catholic Church in National Politics, 1973-1984

An historical account and evaluation of the attempts of the Catholic Church to influence abortion politics and policy, with particular attention to Catholic understandings of the relation between private and public morality, and the separation of church and state in a pluralistic society