Liberty and sexuality
Subtitle: the right to privacy and the making of Roe v. Wade
By: David J. Garrow.
Publisher: Macmillan Pub. Co.; Maxwell Macmillan Canada; Maxwell Macmillan International
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York; Toronto; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 981
Subjects: Abortion -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.; Birth control -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.; Sex and law -- United States -- History.; Privacy, Right of -- United States -- History.
Description: The author follows the "right to privacy" from its beginnings in the attempts to repeal the Connecticut law banning birth control in the 1930s to the 1965 "Griswald v. Connecticut" decision and the 1973 "Roe v. Wade" decision to the present abortion and gay rights cases.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 916-945) and index.
"A Lisa Drew book."
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