When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, with a New Preface Joan Schenkar Gemma and Leo Telford wrote

Gemma and Leo Telford wrote their memoir with the aim of destigmatizing and humanizing transgender people and the issues they face

author of Gay American History

the result is a treasure of a book

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"--New York Times Book Review

When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, with a New Preface Joan Schenkar Gemma and Leo Telford wroteThe definitive history of abortion in the United States, with a new preface that equips readers for what's to come. When Abortion Was a Crime is the must read book on abortion history. Originally published ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this award winning study was the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid nineteenth century and ending with that monumental