When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, with a New Preface Reagan Leslie J.
When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, with a New Preface Reagan Leslie J. The definitive history of abortion in the United States, with a new preface…
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When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, with a New Preface Reagan Leslie J.
The definitive history of abortion in the United States, with a new preface that equips readers for what's to come.When Abortion Was a Crime is the must-read book on abortion history. Wade, this award-winning study was the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with that monumental case in 1973. Originally published ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v.
With this edition, Leslie J. When Abortion Was a Crime is filled with intimate stories and nuanced analysis, demonstrating how abortion was criminalized and policed--and how millions of women sought abortions regardless of the law. Reagan provides a new preface that addresses the dangerous and ongoing threats to abortion access across the country, and the precarity of our current moment.