The Abortion Rights Controversy in America: A Legal Reader - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807828734 ISBN 13: 9780807828731

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Synopsis

Beginning with the introduction of abortion law in the nineteenth century, this reader includes important documents from nearly two hundred years of debate over abortion. These legal briefs, oral arguments, court opinions, newspaper reports, opinion pieces, and contemporary essays are introduced with headnotes that place them in historical context. Chapters cover the birth control movement, changes in abortion law in the 1960s, Roe v. Wade, the Hyde Amendment and the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, state and federal regulation of abortion practices, and the freedom of speech cases surrounding anti-abortion clinic protests. The first section of each chapter sets the stage and explains the choice of documents. This rich, balanced collection is an indispensable reference tool for the study of one of the most passionate debates in American history. It brings together the writings of doctors, lawyers, scientists, philosophers, elected officials, judges, and scholars as few other legal readers do, and it is essential reading for those engaged in the ongoing debate about abortion law in the United States.

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About the Author

N. E. H. Hull is distinguished professor of law at Rutgers Law School. Williamjames Hoffer is assistant professor of history at Seton Hall University. Peter Charles Hoffer is distinguished research professor of history at the University of Georgia. Hull and Peter Hoffer have collaborated on several books and have written or edited more than two dozen books between them.

From the Inside Flap

This book compiles a balanced selection of important documents--legal briefs, oral arguments, court opinions, statutes, newspaper reports, opinion pieces, contemporary essays--relating to debates over abortion in the U.S. over the past 200 years.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807828734
• ISBN 13: 9780807828731
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Hoffer Peter Charles