Criminal Abortion: Its Nature, Its Evidence, and Its LawThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2007 - 215 Seiten Containing both medical and legal perspectives, Criminal Abortion is an important document from the early decades of the anti-abortion crusade. Dr. Storer [1830-1922] led the medical campaign against abortion during the second half of the nineteenth century. His efforts were supported by Heard [1825-1889], the distinguished jurist and legal scholar. The motivations for both men were primarily racist, xenophobic and sexist. They were horrified by declining birthrates among the Yankee classes and the influx of immigrants, many of them non-white, Catholic and Jewish. In their minds abortion in the non-immigrant community, which they attributed to modern fashion and feminism, was leading to "race suicide" and a country overtaken by "inferior races." |
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