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When Abortion Was a Crime Leslie J. Reagan

When Abortion Was a Crime By Leslie J. Reagan

When Abortion Was a Crime by Leslie J. Reagan


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

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 filled with intimate stories and nuanced analysis, demonstrating how abortion was criminalized and policed-and how millions of women sought abortions regardless of the law. With this edition, Leslie J. Reagan provides a new preface that addresses the dangerous and ongoing threats to abortion access across the country, and the precarity of our current moment.

While abortions have typically been portrayed as grim back alley operations, this deeply researched history confirms that many abortion providers-including physicians-practiced openly and safely, despite prohibitions by the state and the American Medical Association. Women could find cooperative and reliable practitioners; but prosecution, public humiliation, loss of privacy, and inferior medical care were a constant threat. Reagan's analysis of previously untapped sources, including inquest records and trial transcripts, shows the fragility of patient rights and raises provocative questions about the relationship between medicine and law. With the right to abortion increasingly under attack, this book remains the definitive history of abortion in the United States, offering vital lessons for every American concerned with health care, civil liberties, and personal and sexual freedom.

When Abortion Was a Crime Reviews

An unsettling illumination of what happens when abortion rights are nonexistent, this book is a reflection on where we came from, a warning of what might lie ahead, and a chilling reminder that history repeats itself. * Electric Literature *

About Leslie J. Reagan

Leslie J. Reagan is Professor of History, Law, Gender and Women's Studies, and Media Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Author of the award-winning Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America and public intellectual, Reagan has written for the Washington Post, Time, Ms. Magazine, and Huffington Post and has appeared on numerous national and international media outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, CBC Radio, and NPR. She is currently completing Toxic Legacies: Agent Orange in the United States and Vietnam.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface to 2022 Edition
Notes to Preface to 2022 Edition
Selected Bibliography

Introduction
1 An Open Secret
2 Private Practices
3 Antiabortion Campaigns, Private and Public
4 Interrogations and Investigations
5 Expansion and Specialization
6 Raids and Rules
7 Repercussions
8 Radicalization of Reform
Epilogue: Post-Roe, Post-Casey

Note on Sources
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

NGR9780520387416
9780520387416
0520387414
When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, with a New Preface by Leslie J. Reagan
New
Paperback
University of California Press
2022-02-22
432
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