The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law by Rickie Solinger

The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law

Rickie Solinger

265 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism history emotional informative medium-paced
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Prior to Roe v. Wade, hundreds of thousands of illegal abortions occurred in the United States every year. Rickie Solinger uses the story of Ruth Barnett, an abortionist in Portland, Oregon, between 1918 and 1968 to demonstrate that it was the law...

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