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Columns::October 15, 2001

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Book examines context of court case

$35 (cloth)
15.95 (paper)
University Press of Kansas

The bitter debate over Roe v. Wade--in the courts, legislatures, press, and streets--has grown even more ferocious since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in 1973.
In Roe v. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History, N.E.H. Hull and Peter Charles Hoffer trace and analyze the core debates, examine the case’s unique history, clarify the jurisprudence behind the Court’s ruling, and gauge its impact on American society. Hull is Distinguished Professor of Law and a member of the graduate faculty in history at Rutgers University-Camden, and Hoffer is UGA Research Professor of History.
Unlike other accounts of Roe, this one examines the complete social and legal contexts of the case. Hull and Hoffer review more than a century of abortion practice (and abuse), common-law views on abortion, 19th-century criminalization measures, and the rapid changes in science, public mores, and civil rights that finally brought the issue before the Supreme Court.
Published simultaneously in cloth and paper, Roe v. Wade will be available Oct. 30.

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