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Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy (Galaxy Books)
by James C. Mohr
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1979-09-20)
ISBN: 0195026160
EAN: 9780195026160
Dewy Decimal #: 344.73041
Paperback: 352 pages
SKU: N2376
Condition: Very Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
'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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Customer Reviews
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Required Reading for Those Interested in the Issue
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-06-22
4 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
Mohr's groundbreaking work is a history of abortion in the United States from the colonial days until the present (as of the late 1970s). What is fascinating about this book is how the medical establishment railed against the increased use of abortion in the 1800s but became among its foremost advocates a century later. Mohr also shows the reader how legalizing abortion in recent years was not a result of lax morals but rather was a return to the past.This is a brief book, but it is one of the very finest books on this controversial issue.
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Excellent analysis of the evolution of abortion policy.
Rating (5)
Date: 1999-09-06
17 out of 20 customers found this reveiw helpful
James Mohr's "Abortion in America" is a breath of fresh air in the abortion debate. Scholarly, unbiased, and betraying no hint whatsoever of any kind of agenda -- pro or con -- regarding abortion policy, the book is nevertheless revelatory concerning the development of abortion law in this country. From the colonial and early republican period, when abortion was perfectly legal (partly because doctors, hampered by inadequate medical knowledge, -- the difference between a pregnancy and some kind of uterine "stoppage" was unclear -- frequently administered medications that caused abortions) to the 1890s, when virtually every state had a system of laws prohibiting abortions, the story is capably told. And the truth ought to startle anyone who thinks religious activism was in any way responsible for the late 19th-century wave of anti-abortion legislation. I'll leave it to prospective readers to discover who or what was actually responsible, and how self-interest (as opposed to an interest in the unborn) played a crucial role. An eye-opener, and an important read for people for either side of the debate.
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