Explores the evolution of both sides of America's abortion debate in a balanced selection of 41 primary documents by doctors, feminists, religious leaders, activists, politicians, and judges from the 19th century to the present day.
Front Cover.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Preface.
1: Chronology.
2: Abortion in Early America.
3: Document: Excerpt from S. K. Jennings' The Married Lady's Companion, Or Poor Man's Friend, a text on issues confronting the nineteenth-century American wife.
4: Document: Commonwealth v. Isaiah Bangs, the first known American judicial ruling on abortion (footnotes omitted).
5: Document: The Declaration of Sentiments.
6: Document: American Medical Association (AMA) Report on Criminal Abortion.
7: Document: Excerpt from Dr. Horatio Storer's Why Not? A Book for Every Woman: A Proper Bostonian on Sex and Birth Control.
8: Document: Abortionist Advertisement.
9: Document: Madame Restell Charged.
10: Document: The Comstock Act or “An Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use” (S. 1572, 42D Congress, 3D Session).
11: Early Twentieth-Century Tensions and Trends.
12: Document: Excerpt from U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's address “On American Motherhood,” delivered to the National Congress of Mothers.
13: Document: “Up to the Doctors.”.
14: Document: Excerpt from United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries.
15: Document: Selection from Margaret Sanger; An Autobiography.
16: Document: American Law Institute (ALI) Model Penal Code.
17: Document: “The Abortion Racket—What Should Be Done?”.
18: Abortion at a Crossroads: America at Mid-Century.
19: Document: Griswold v. Connecticut.
20: Document: National Organization for Women (NOW) Bill of Rights.
21: Document: Humanae Vitae, Encyclical of Pope Paul VI on the Regulation of Birth (footnotes omitted).
22: Document: NARAL By-Laws and NARAL Progress Report.
23: Document: Excerpt from The Abortion Handbook for Responsible Women, by Lana Clarke Phelan and Patricia Therese Maginnis.
