Creating Choice - A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973 (Paperback)

Before Roe v. Wade, somewhere between one and two million illegal abortions were performed every year in the United States. Illegal abortion affected millions of women and their families, yet their stories remain hidden. In Creating Choice, citizens of one community in Western Massachusetts' Pioneer Valley break that silence. Doctors, clergy, and members of feminist women's collectives in the Pioneer Valley provided access to birth control (illegal in the state for single women until 1972) and abortions. Their work was done in defiance of the law, sometimes in secret, but often surprisingly openly. These activists felt they had no choice but to defy the laws and often met with support from surprising places, like university administrators, church officials, and the local police department. In Creating Choice, you'll meet a college chaplain moved to break the law after one of his students died of a back alley abortion and another hung herself; you'll meet a waitress who performed over 1,500 illegal abortions in her pink bathtub; and you'll meet the women themselves who risked their very lives.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Oral History
Release date:	February 2008
First published:	February 2006
Authors:	D. Cline
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	290
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-6814-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Gynaecology & obstetrics > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Abortion Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-4039-6814-4
Barcode:	9781403968142

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