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Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History » (1ST)

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Authors: Joseph W. Dellapenna
ISBN-13: 9780890895092, ISBN-10: 0890895090
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Date Published: March 2006
Edition: 1ST

Author Biography: Joseph W. Dellapenna

Book Synopsis

This book covers over 1,000 years of abortion history in England and America, with special emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It presents an accurate, unbiased account of the history of abortion in order to provide a thoroughly fresh look at that history, reaching several unorthodox conclusions without taking sides on the merits of the abortion debate.

In Roe v. Wade, Justice Harry Blackmun structured the argument of the majority around the history of abortion laws. That history built on the work of law professor Cyril Means, Jr., and historian James Mohr. Means and Mohr proclaim four theses as summarizing the "true" history of abortion in England and America:

Ch. 1	Only women bleed	3
Ch. 2	Dead babies can take care of themselves	57
Ch. 3	Imagine there's no heaven	125
Ch. 4	Riders on the storm	185
Ch. 5	Way down inside	229
Ch. 6	Live and let die	263
Ch. 7	The song remains the same	315
Ch. 8	You're so vain, I'll bet you think this song is about you	371
Ch. 9	The sounds of silence	411
Ch. 10	Turn the page	453
Ch. 11	Look what they've done to my song	491
Ch. 12	Close the wound, hide the scar	539
Ch. 13	Girls just want to have fun	575
Ch. 14	When the music's over	631
Ch. 15	Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose	697
Ch. 16	Break on through to the other side	771
Ch. 17	Honesty is such a lonely word	835
Ch. 18	Both sides now	887
Ch. 19	The beat goes on	941
Ch. 20	I don't wanna be a lawyer mama, I don't wanna lie	995
Ch. 21	Nobody's right if everybody's wrong	1053