Abortion Rights Controversy in America

by Williamjames Hull Hoffer and Peter Charles Huffer

Book Overview

Beginning with the introduction of abortion law in the nineteenth century, this reader includes important documents from nearly two hundred years of debate over abortion. These legal briefs, oral arguments, court opinions, newspaper reports, opinion pieces, and contemporary essays are introduced with headnotes that place them in historical context. Chapters cover the birth control movement, changes in abortion law in the 1960s, Roe v. Wade, ...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807855359
• ISBN13: 9780807855355
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"