From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920–1969

From Back Alley to the Border

Criminal Abortion in California, 1920–1969

2020 • 266 pages

From back alley : butchers and the underworld -- Regular physicians, irregular circumstances : loopholes and scandals -- Inconceivable blackness : race, medicine, and contraception -- "The mid-wife type" : wicked women abortionists -- The Pacific Coast Abortion Ring : organized crime and criminal ambitions -- After PCAR : surveillance, repression, and restriction -- To the border : "Tijuana abortions" and legal vagueness.

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