Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy, 1800-1900
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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... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195026160
ISBN13:9780195026160
Release Date:September 1979
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:0.91 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"
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Required Reading for Those Interested in the Issue
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Mohr's groundbreaking work is a history of abortion in the United States from the colonial days until the present (as of the late 1970s). What is fascinating about this book is how the medical establishment railed against the increased use of abortion in the 1800s but became among its foremost advocates a century later. Mohr also shows the reader how legalizing abortion in recent years was not a result of lax morals but rather was a return to the past.This is a brief book, but it is one of the very finest books on this controversial issue.
Excellent analysis of the evolution of abortion policy.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
James Mohr's "Abortion in America" is a breath of fresh air in the abortion debate. Scholarly, unbiased, and betraying no hint whatsoever of any kind of agenda -- pro or con -- regarding abortion policy, the book is nevertheless revelatory concerning the development of abortion law in this country. From the colonial and early republican period, when abortion was perfectly legal (partly because doctors, hampered by inadequate medical knowledge, -- the difference between a pregnancy and some kind of uterine "stoppage" was unclear -- frequently administered medications that caused abortions) to the 1890s, when virtually every state had a system of laws prohibiting abortions, the story is capably told. And the truth ought to startle anyone who thinks religious activism was in any way responsible for the late 19th-century wave of anti-abortion legislation. I'll leave it to prospective readers to discover who or what was actually responsible, and how self-interest (as opposed to an interest in the unborn) played a crucial role. An eye-opener, and an important read for people for either side of the debate.
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