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Liberty and sexuality : the right to privacy and the making of Roe v. Wade / David J. Garrow.

Title
Liberty and sexuality : the right to privacy and the making of Roe v. Wade / David J. Garrow.
Author
Garrow, David J., 1953-
Publication
New York : Macmillan Publishing Company ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, [1994]

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  • Dr. Joseph R. Stanton Human Life Issues Library and Resource Center former owner. sch
  • Value of Life Committee former owner. sch
Description
v, 981 pages; 25 cm
Summary
The author follows the "right to privacy" from its beginnings in the attempts to repeal the Connecticut law banning birth control in the 1930s to the 1965 "Griswald v. Connecticut" decision and the 1973 "Roe v. Wade" decision to the present abortion and gay rights cases.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • "A Lisa Drew book."
  • "A Twentieth Century Fund book"--Title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 916-945) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Waterbury origins of Roe v. Wade -- No further service : Connecticut's struggle for the legalization of birth control, 1940-1953 -- One vote shy : Estelle Griswold, Fowler Harper, and the U.S. Supreme Court, 1954-1961 -- Creating the right to privacy : Estelle Griswold and the U.S. Supreme Court, 1961-1965 -- Lonely voices : abortion reformers and the origins of change, 1933-1967 -- From reform to repeal : the right to abortion, 1967-1969 -- Into the courts : Roe, Doe, & the right to abortion, 1969-1971 -- The right to abortion and the U.S. Supreme Court, 1971-1973 -- Liberty & sexuality since Roe v. Wade.
ISBN
  • 0025427555
  • 9780025427556
LCCN
93008231
OCLC
  • 28113351
  • SCSB-10349163
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library