A Private Choice: Abortion in America in the Seventies

by John T. Noonan Jr.

Assesses the legal, medical, and moral implications of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, charging that the Court subverted the law for extralegal purposes

244 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1979

About the author

John Thomas Noonan, Jr. (1926-2017) was a Senior Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with chambers in San Francisco, California. He was appointed in 1985 by President Ronald Reagan.

Affiliations:
United States. Court of Appeals (9th Circuit)
University of California, Berkeley. School of Law
University of Notre Dame. Law School