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

The definitive history of abortion in the United States, with a new preface that equips readers for what’s to come.

When Abortion Was a Crime is the must—read book on abortion history. Originally published ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this award—winning study was the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid—nineteenth century and ending with that monumental case in 1973. When Abortion Was a Crime is...