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(More customer reviews)By presenting primary documents (fliers, handbooks, speeches, legal briefs), Before Roe v. Wade offers an in-depth look at the different voices that shaped the debate around abortion prior to the Roe ruling in 1973. Often, discussion of Roe v. Wade tends to obscure the political, legal, and social landscape before the case worked its way through the court system. Thus, Before Roe v. Wade seeks to illuminate the environment into which Roe landed -- revealing how the seeds of the contemporary abortion wars were in fact planted in the late 60s and early 70s. The book is full of surprising information about the lengths women went to to obtain safe abortions before they were legal (all the way to Japan!), the way that religious institutions and clergy considered abortion, the population control-dimension to the debate, and the cases and legal arguments that preceded Roe.
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The definitive book on Roe v. Wade by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
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