M. Benesh’s Reviews > When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 > Status Update

"Making abortion hard to obtain will not return the United States to an imagined time of virginal brides and stable families; it will return us to the time of crowded septic abortion wards, avoidable deaths, and the routinization of punitive treatment of women by state authorities and their surrogates."
This has been a sobering but impactful book. I can't put it down.