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'The history of how abortion came to be banned and how women lost--for the century between approximately 1870 and 1970--rights previously thought to be natural and inherent over their own bodies is a fascinating and infuriating one.
Series: Galaxy Books (Book 584)
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press (September 20, 1979)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195026160
ISBN-13: 978-0195026160
Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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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.
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.
How did legal access to abortion become THE domestic political/cultural issue that decides elections in the USA? James C. Mohr's book, Abortion in America, traces the societal and political forces that over the course of the 19th century shifted the practice of abortion from broadly legal under the Common Law and widely accepted and practiced (if not openly spoken of), to broadly illegal in most US states and less socially accepted (but no less widely practiced than it ever was). This is a sensitive, "non-partisan" historical treatment of a topic that it can be difficult to discuss in modern America.
It was useful during my college investigation.
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