The Abortion Rights Controversy in America
Subtitle: A Legal Reader
Contributors: N. E. H. Hull (Editor); Williamjames Hoffer (Editor); Peter Charles Hoffer (Editor)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780807855355
Subjects: Social law; United States; Legal History; Abortion & Birth Control; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Sociology; USA; Constitutional; Medical Law & Legislation; Law / Constitutional; Law-Medical Law & Legislation; Social Science / Women's Studies; Social Science-Abortion & Birth Control; abortion; Roe v. Wade; fetus; unborn; women's rights movement; Pro-Choice;  Pro-Life; NARAL; NOW; Harry Blackmun; Antonin Scalia; Sandra Day O'Connor; abortion rights; court opinions; birth control; Hyde Amendment; Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act; Abortion; United States - 20th Century; Law and legislation
First sentence: Although the controversy over Roe v. Wade has made it seem that the last quarter of the twentieth century is the most important historical era for understanding abortion and abortion rights in America, the law of abortion changed just as dramatically in the first half of the nineteenth century in our country as in the last fifty years.