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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

Abortion the Politics of Motherhood 3 California

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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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