Leslie Reagan's "When Abortion Was A Crime" - Book Review

http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/864
Date Written:  1998-01-09
Publisher:  Against the Current, Michigan, USA
Year Published:  1998
Resource Type:  Article

Abstract: 
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When Abortion Was A Crime:
Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973
Leslie J. Reagan
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997),
$29.95 cloth, $17.95 paperback.
ABORTION IN THE United States was not always a crime. In colonial America women, including slave women, used herbs and roots as abortifacients. Part of the campaign to criminalize abortion during the second half of the 19th century involved challenging both Common Law and popular belief that, prior to...

Subject Headings

• Abortion