Dispelling the myths of abortion history

Abstract

A personal aside -- Ch. 1. Only women bleed -- Assumptions instead of evidence -- Obstruced Menses -- A typology of abortion techniques -- Injury techniques -- Ingestion techniques -- Intrusion techniques -- Ch. 2. Dead babies can take care of themselves -- Contraception -- Lactation -- Abstinence -- Infanticide in Western societies -- Infanticide under English law -- The Rev. Robert Foulkes -- Infanticide in England's American colonies -- Ch. 3. Imagine there's no heaven -- The Early Common Law confronts abortion by injury techniques -- Prosecutions in the Royal Courts for abortions -- Cyril Means, Jr., and the Twinslayer's Case -- The Canon Law of Abortion -- Ecclesiastical jurisdiction over abortion by ingestion techniques -- Royal Courts capture the ecclesiastical jurisdiction -- Ch. 4. Riders on the storm -- The law near the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth -- Sir Edward Coke and the Born Alive Rule -- Sir Matthew Hale and the second Rex v. Anonymous -- The reception of the Common Law on Abortion and Infanticide in the American colonies -- Ch. 5. Way down inside -- The emergence of intrusion techniques in seventeenth-century England -- The Common Law regarding abortion around 1800 -- The statutory prohibition of abortion in England -- The policy foundations of the English abortion statutes -- Ch. 6. Live and let die -- The earliest American statutes (1821-1840) -- The first abortion statutes in New York (1829) -- The Allopathic conspiracy -- The realities of abortion in the mid-nineteenth century -- Ch. 7. The song remains the same -- New York's later abortion laws (1845-1942) -- Changes in the practice of abortions in the late nineteenth century -- How many abortions? -- The professionalization of the practice of medicine -- The anti-abortion crusade: Horatio Robinson Storer and his associates -- Ch. 8. You're so vain, I'll bet you think this song is about you -- The nineteenth century feminists -- Obfuscating nineteenth century feminist attitudes -- Women physicians in the nineteenth century -- Did feminist opposition to abortion make a difference? -- Ch. 9. The sounds of silence -- General public opposition to abortion -- The Catholic dimension -- Abortion in the professionalization of the law -- Nineteenth century prosecutions of abortion -- The role of women lawyers in the nineteenth century -- Ch. 10. Turning the page -- Abortion becomes safe - for the mother -- Early critics of the abortion statutes -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- Changes in social behavior at the turn of the century -- After World War I -- Ch. 11. Look what they ve done to my song -- The eugenics movement -- Eugenics in Germany -- Women and the eugenics movement -- Early criticism of abortion laws and the Soviet reform -- Attempts at reform in England and Wales -- Prosecutions of abortion before 1940 -- Ch. 12. Close the wound, hide the scar -- Intensifying the prosecution of abortion -- The incidence of abortion between 1950 and 1970 -- Emergence of the full time abortionist -- The rise of the hospital abortion committees -- Ch. 13. Girls just want to have fun -- Reform in England and Wales -- Reform comes to America -- The Model Penal Code and limited reform -- The rise of the managerial class and the decline of the family -- From reform to repeal -- Ch. 14. When the music's over -- Enter the women -- The impact of developments in abortion techniques -- Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton -- Ch. 15. Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose -- The aftermath of Roe and Doe -- Roe in light of world trends -- The emergence of the fetus -- Ch. 16. Break on through to the other side -- The controversy continues -- Silencing the opposition -- The turn to violence -- The decline of the abortion industry -- Ch. 17. Honesty is such a lonely word -- The Supreme Court turns away -- Orchestrating yet another abortion case -- The Supreme Court abandons the fight -- Ch. 18. Both sides now -- More medicine -- The battle over names -- The Supreme Court again -- The struggle in the lower courts -- Ch. 19. The beat goes on -- Contemporary attitudes toward abortion -- Public confusion over abortion law and policy -- What might be expected of legislatures? -- Unraveling Roe -- Ch. 20. I don't wanna be a lawyer Mama, I don't wanna lie -- Abortion history then and now -- Truth vs. advocacy -- Why search for lost voices? -- Doing outsider history -- The stories told about abortion past -- Could history provide the answers? -- Ch. 21. Nobody's right if everybody's wrong -- Juridical abuses of abortion history -- The past as paradigm -- Consciousness - true or false? -- The emerging technomorality of the life sciences -- The past - and the future -- Table of cases -- Index