Why read Abortion in America?

Book cover of Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of a National Policy

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'The history of how abortion came to be banned and how women lost--for the century between approximately 1870 and 1970--rights previously thought to be natural and inherent over their own bodies is a fascinating and infuriating one.

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1 author picked Abortion in America as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Marcia Biederman

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This book has a permanent place on my nightstand, where I reach for it whenever I need a pithy, brilliant reminder of how the US completed its late-nineteenth-century transformation from a country with no abortion laws to a place where abortion was banned everywhere at every stage.

I’m amazed that a book first published in 1978, long before the advent of the Internet, managed to marshal evidence from newspaper classified ads and forgotten trials to present a portrait of America where abortion was widespread but seldom dared to speak its name.

From Marcia's list on abortion flourishing even when criminalized.