When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973. by Reagan, Leslie J - 1997

Berkeley, California.: University of California Press.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0520088484 . 8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; xiii - 387 pp. Gray paper over boards with red cloth and silver gilt lettering on the spine. From the dust jacket: "This is the first book to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with Roe v. Wade in 1973." Eighty-eight pages of notes, a 24 page bibliography and a 21 page index. Minor wear to the spine tips, otherwise clean with a sound binding. The dust jacket has minor wear to the edges and some creases on the flaps. .