When abortion was a crime women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973 /

This is the first book to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with Roe v. Wade in 1973. In her eloquent account, Leslie J. Reagan uncovers the secret history of abortion in America. Although illegal, mil...

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Main Author: Reagan, Leslie J.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
Physical Description: xiii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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