Abstract
The author explores the era of restrictive abortion policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the 1950s and 1960s in an effort to understand the sources of its demise in 1972. She examines the social and policy background to the legalization of abortion as well as the arguments and actions of physicians influential Communists and citizens....Abortion reform in East Germany she argues...has to be placed within the domestic framework of changing relations between a Communist state and its society and the international context of a rising appreciation of the link between abortion law and womens rights....[The author] contends that the causes course and content of abortion reform in the GDR were strikingly similar to those in Western industrial democracies despite antithetical political circumstances. The main data sources were the archives of the Ministry of Health and the Socialist Unity party which contain reports by Communist and health officials at the national and local levels transcripts of discussions between physicians and party bureaucrats and individual pleas to state officials from women throughout the GDR who wanted an abortion. (EXCERPT)
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