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The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law
The Abortionist A Woman Against the Law
Author: Rickie Solinger
Prior to Roe v. Wade, hundreds of thousands of illegal abortions occurred in the United States every year. Rickie Solinger uses the story of Ruth Barnett, an abortionist in Portland, Oregon, between 1918 and 1968 to demonstrate that it was the law, not so-called back-alley practitioners, that most endangered women's lives in the years bef...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520204027
ISBN-10: 0520204026
Publication Date: 4/11/1996
Pages: 253
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
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A real WOW of a book! What one of the many women who fought for our right to privacy has done. It's just amazing.


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