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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Contents
The First Wave of Abortion | 20 |
The Great Upsurge of Abortion | 46 |
The Social Character of Abortion | 86 |
The Transitional Legislation | 119 |
The Physicians Crusade Against | 147 |
Public Opinion and the Abortion | 171 |
AntiAbortion Legislation | 200 |
AntiAbortion as American Policy | 226 |
afterword The Roe Decision | 246 |
Notes 265 | 265 |
Appendices | 317 |
AntiAbortion Activity on | 324 |
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| Title | Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy Galaxy Books |
| Author | James C. Mohr |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0199726876, 9780199726875 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / General History / United States / General Social Science / Abortion & Birth Control Social Science / Women's Studies |
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