Sanger, in fact, later claimed that her exposure to the miseries of abortion made manifest in the death of an impoverished immigrant named Sadie Sachs in 1912 had inspired her long fight for open access to contraceptive knowledge and ...
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.
A gripping account of social-movement divides and crucial legal strategies, this book delivers a definitive recent history of an issue that transforms American law and politics to this day.
Ziegler documents a shift to debates on policy costs and benefits that deepened polarization on abortion in this first legal history of the period.
Abortion in America: Medical, Psychiatric, Legal, Anthropological, and Religious Considerations