Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National PolicyChronicles the incidence of abortion in nineteenthand twentieth-century America and the causes and processes of the profound social change which resulted, by 1900, in the nearly universal legal proscription of abortion. |
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The Great Upsurge of Abortion 18401880 | 46 |
The Social Character of Abortion in America 18401880 | 86 |
The Transitional Legislation of 18401860 | 119 |
The Physicians Crusade Against Abortion 18571880 | 147 |
Public Opinion and the Abortion Issue 18601880 | 171 |
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