{"id":162,"date":"2012-02-23T02:23:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T02:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/?p=162"},"modified":"2012-02-23T02:23:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T02:23:12","slug":"social-movements-and-public-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/2012\/02\/23\/social-movements-and-public-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Movements and Public Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following up on our discussion today about the relationship between social movements and public policy, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell withdrew his support of the latest bill requiring a woman to have a transvaginal ultrasound before having an abortion.\u00a0 Was his change of heart due to public protest and media attention or due to his own political aspirations?\u00a0 Hard to tell.<\/p>\n

See the New York Times<\/em> latest coverage of the issue here<\/a>.\u00a0 That article also describes some of the social movement organizations on both sides of the debate.<\/p>\n

See John Stewart’s The Daily Show <\/em>coverage of the issue here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fox News has an article describing the protest on Monday.\u00a0 Read that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can also read the AP News story about the protest here<\/a>\"\"<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This image comes from the Rachel Maddow blog.\u00a0 You can read the blog here<\/a>.\u00a0 The people standing in the far left of the picture include a faculty member and students from Longwood University.<\/p>\n

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Following up on our discussion today about the relationship between social movements and public policy, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell withdrew his support of the latest bill requiring a woman to have a transvaginal ultrasound before having an abortion.\u00a0 Was his … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8195,8187],"tags":[771],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-9-how-movements-matter","category-meyer-poltics-of-protest","tag-current-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/s12ldst304\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}