When Abortion Was a Crime  


When Abortion Was a Crime
Univ of California Press | February 22, 2022 | 423 pages
ISBN: 9780520387416

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.