Abortion in America
Subtitle: the origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900
By: James C. Mohr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780195026160
Subjects: Abortion -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.; Abortus provocatus.; Wetgeving.
Description: Chronicles the incidence of abortion in nineteenthand twentieth-century America and the causes and processes of the profound social change which resulted, by 1900, in the nearly universal legal proscription of abortion.