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Abortion Law and legislation United States History Abortion United States Public opinion HISTORY / United States / 20th Century LAW / Gender & the Law McCorvey, Norma 1947-2017 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics Roe, Jane 1947-2017 Trials, litigation, etc Trials (Abortion) Washington (D.C.) Wade, Henry Trials, litigation, etc Women social reformers United States BiographyKornbluh, Felicia Ann
Summary: "Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, historian Felicia Kornbluh delivers an urgent book about two key reproductive rights victories in New York that set the tone for the nation. A Woman's Life Is a Human Life is the story of two movements that transformed the politics of reproductive rights: the fight to decriminalize abortion and the campaign against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.08 KORZiegler, Mary
Summary: "Over its half-century of public life, Roe v. Wade took on meanings that extended far beyond its original purpose of protecting the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship. At various times, it forced us to confront hard questions about judicial activism and restraint, the believability of science, racial justice, the suppression of religion, and much more. Mary Ziegler explores the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1988 ZIEPrager, Joshua
Summary: Despite her famous pseudonym, "Jane Roe," no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers--a previously unseen trove--and witnessed her final moments. This book presents her life in full.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021