Abortion Books
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Deep Care
Angela Hume
The Trials of Madame Restell
Nicholas L. Syrett
Madame Restell
Jennifer Wright
Road to Appeal
Pauline Conroy, Therese Cherty, Derek Speirs
Abortion to Abolition
Martha Paynter, Julia Hutt (illustrator)
Bad Faith
Randall Balmer
The Man Who Hated Women
Amy Sohn
Abortion in Early Modern Italy
John Christopoulos
From Back Alley to the Border
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine
Jeannie’s Demise
Ian Radforth
The Abortion Caravan
Karin Wells
No Place for the State
Christopher Dummitt, Christabelle Sethna (editors)
Tiny You
Jennifer L. Holland
Abortion and the Law in America
Mary Ziegler
Jane Against the World
Karen Blumenthal
The Right-to-Life Movement, the Reagan Administration, and the Politics of Abortion
Prudence Flowers
Personal and Political
Lorraine Greaves
On Abortion
Laia Abril
Just Watch Us
Christabelle Sethna, Steve Hewitt
The Criminalization of Abortion in the West
Wolfgang P. Müller
Transcending Borders
Shannon Stettner, Katrina Ackerman, Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay
La Bataille de l’avortement
Louise Desmarais
After Roe
Mary Ziegler
The Birth of the Pill
Jonathan Eig
Abortion in the American Imagination
Karen Weingarten
Rough on Women
Margaret Sparrow
Abortion in England 1900-1967
Barbara Brookes
Fighting to Choose
Alison McCulloch
Before Roe V. Wade
Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. Siegel
Dangerous Pregnancies
Leslie J. Reagan
Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany
Cornelie Usborne
The Racket
Gideon Haigh
Ireland’s Hidden Diaspora
Ann Rossiter
Contraception
Robert Jütte
The Moral Property of Women
Linda Gordon
Pregnancy and Power
Rickie Solinger
The Girls Who Went Away
Ann Fessler
Creating Choice
David P. Cline
Winning Choice on Abortion
Ann Thomson
Abortion in the Ancient World
Konstantinos Kapparis
Abortion Before Birth Control
Tiana Norgren, Christiana A. E. Norgren
Abortion Without Apology
Ninia Baehr
Eve’s Herbs
John M. Riddle
Liberty and Sexuality
David J. Garrow
Abortion Wars
Rickie Solinger
Wrath of Angels
James Risen, Judy Thomas
Abortion, Doctors and the Law
John Keown
The Story of Jane
Laura Kaplan
The Bedroom and the State
Angus McLaren, Arlene Tigar McLaren
Abortion Law Reformers: Pioneers of Change
Ann Furedi, Michael Hume
When Abortion Was a Crime
Leslie J. Reagan
Doctors of Conscience
Carole E. Joffe
The Politics of Abortion and Birth Control in Historical Perspective
Donald T. Critchlow
Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Wendy Holden
The Pro-choice Movement
Suzanne Staggenborg
Decoding Abortion Rhetoric
Celeste M. Condit
Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance
John M. Riddle
The anti-abortion movement and the rise of the religious right
Dallas A. Blanchard
Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-century America
Janet Farrell Brodie
Religious Violence and Abortion
Dallas A. Blanchard, Terry James Prewitt
The Worst of Times
Patricia G. Miller
The Politics of Abortion
M. Janine Brodie, Shelley A. M. Gavigan, Jane Jenson
The “abortion pill”
Etienne-Emile Baulieu, with Mort Rosenblum
RU 486
Lawrence Lader
The Big Evasion
Anne Collins
Abortion Freedom
Colin Francome
Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy
James C. Mohr
Rosie
Ellen Frankfort
Abortion
Malcolm Potts, Peter Diggory, John Peel
Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right
Linda Gordon
Abortion in Demand
Victoria Greenwood, Jock Young
Abortion Rap
Diane Schulder, Florynce Kennedy
Abortion Law Reformed
Keith Hindell, Madeleine Simms
Law for the Rich
Alice Jenkins