When Abortion Was a Crime

Author: Leslie J. Reagan
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520216571
Category: Medical

When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973

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Wade, it's crucial to look back to the time when abortion was illegal. Leslie Reagan traces the practice and policing of abortion, which although illegal was nonetheless widely available, but always with threats for both doctor and patient. In a time when many young women don't even know that there was a period when abortion was a crime, this work offers chilling and vital lessons of importance to everyone.
The linking of the words "abortion" and "crime" emphasizes the difficult and painful history that is the focus of Leslie J. Reagan's important book. Her study is the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth cent Get When Abortion Was a Crime our bestseller medical books.

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Wade, it's crucial to look back to the time when abortion was illegal. Leslie Reagan traces the practice and policing of abortion, which although illegal was nonetheless widely available, but always with threats for both doctor and patient. In a time when many young women don't even know that there was a period when abortion was a crime, this work offers chilling and vital lessons of importance to everyone.
The linking of the words "abortion" and "crime" emphasizes the difficult and painful history that is the focus of Leslie J Her study is the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth cent

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