the origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900 /
James C. Mohr.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1978.
xii, 331 pages ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Abortion in America, 1800-1825 -- 2. First wave of abortion legislation, 1821-1841 -- 3. Great upsurge of abortion, 1840-1880 -- 4. Social character of abortion in America, 1840-1880 -- 5. Transitional legislation of 1840-1860 -- 6. Physicians' crusade against abortion, 1857-1880 -- 7. Public opinion and the abortion issue, 1860-1880 -- 8. Anti-abortion legislation, 1860-1880 -- 9. Anti-abortion as American policy, 1880-1900 -- Afterword : the Roe decision.
Appendices. I, Case studies from medical publications involving abortions in the United States, 1839-79 -- II, Case studies from medical publications involving abortions in the United States, 1880-1900 -- III, Anti-abortion activity on the part of state and local medical societies.
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Chronicles 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.
Roe v. Wade.
Abortion-- Law and legislation-- United States-- History.