BOOK/MARK: "Abortion in the American Imagination: Before Life and Choice 1880-1940" with Karen Weing

The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe v. Wade, to long before the terms "pro-choice"� and "pro-life"� were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the early decades of the twentieth century had little in common with our now-entrenched debates about personal responsibility and individual autonomy.