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A study of the abortion controversy in the United States. It examines the issues, people, and beliefs on both sides of the abortion conflict. It draws data from public documents and newspaper accounts, as well as over two hundred interviews with both pro-life and pro-choice activists.

Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

1 Introduction
2 Medicine and Morality in the Nineteenth Century
3 The Century of Silence
4 Abortion Reform: The Professionals' Dilemma
5 Women and the Right to Abortion
6 The Emergence of the Right-to-Life Movement
7 World Views of the Activists
8 Motherhood and Morality in America
9 The Future of the Debate

Appendix 1: Methodology
Appendix 2: Tables
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 04/08/1985
      ISBN13: 9780520055971, 978-0520055971
      ISBN10: 0520055977
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      Ethical issues, topics and debates: reproductive health, abortion and birth control

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of the abortion controversy in the United States. It examines the issues, people, and beliefs on both sides of the abortion conflict. It draws data from public documents and newspaper accounts, as well as over two hundred interviews with both pro-life and pro-choice activists.

      Table of Contents
      Foreword
      Preface
      Acknowledgments

      1 Introduction
      2 Medicine and Morality in the Nineteenth Century
      3 The Century of Silence
      4 Abortion Reform: The Professionals' Dilemma
      5 Women and the Right to Abortion
      6 The Emergence of the Right-to-Life Movement
      7 World Views of the Activists
      8 Motherhood and Morality in America
      9 The Future of the Debate

      Appendix 1: Methodology
      Appendix 2: Tables
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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