The Worst of Times: Illegal Abortion : Survivors, Practitioners, Coroners, Cops and Children of Women Who Died Talk About Its Horrors - Hardcover

Miller, Patricia G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060190345 ISBN 13: 9780060190347

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1993

Synopsis

A look at the dark period prior to the legalization of abortion presents the thoughts of children who lost their mothers to back-alley abortionists, the coroners who autopsied those women, and the unskilled people who performed those abortions

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The days when abortions were illegal are graphically and chillingly recalled here by a host of witnesses. Women tell of the byzantine lengths they went to to get mostly perilous abortions; doctors, nurses and others, including boyfriends, describe their experiences. Here, too, are poignant reminiscences of those orphaned when their mothers died having siblings aborted. Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , this powerful collection of testaments, assembled by Miller, a Pittsburgh lawyer and abortion rights activist, demonstrates what awaits women if abortion is made illegal again. Appendices review the history of abortion legislation and the frequency, methods and complications of "underground" abortions. Author tour.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0060190345
• ISBN 13: 9780060190347
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328