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
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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 |
AntiAbortion Legislation 18601880 | 200 |
AntiAbortion as American Policy 18801900 | 226 |
The Roe Decision | 246 |
Notes | 265 |
Appendices | 317 |
Index | 329 |
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Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy James C. Mohr Limited preview - 1979 |
Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy James C. Mohr No preview available - 1979 |
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Page 26 - Every person who provides, supplies, or administers to any pregnant woman, or procures any such woman to take any medicine, drug, or substance, or uses or employs any instrument or other means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, unless the same is necessary to preserve her life, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not less than two nor more than five years.
Page 314 - It is made for people of fundamentally differing views, and the accident of our finding certain opinions natural and familiar, or novel and even shocking, ought not to conclude our judgment upon the question whether statutes embodying them conflict with the Constitution of the United States.
Page 20 - Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously administer to or cause to be administered to or taken by any other person any poison or other destructive or noxious thing...
Page 26 - Every person who shall wilfully administer to any pregnant woman any medicine, drug, substance or thing whatever, or shall employ any instrument or other means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of any such woman, unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such woman...
Page 86 - Married women, also, from the fear of labor, from indisposition to have the care, the expense, or the trouble of children, or some other motive equally trifling and degrading, have solicited that the embryo should be destroyed by their medical attendant.
Page 26 - ... shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such mother, or shall have been advised by two physicians to be necessary for such purpose...
Page 26 - Code, which declares, that except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by such code, every offense declared to be a misdemeanor is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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