Kristin Luker is Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). She is also the author of Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy (1996) and, with Jean Fox O'Barr, Feminism in Action: Building Institutions and Community through Women's Studies (1994).

• ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Introduction2 Medicine and Morality in the Nineteenth Century3 The Century of Silence4 Abortion Reform: The Professionals' Dilemma5 Women and the Right to Abortion6 The Emergence of the Right-to-Life Movement7 World Views of the Activists8 Motherhood and Morality in America9 The Future of the DebateAppendix 1: MethodologyAppendix 2: TablesNotesBibliographyIndex

Kristin Luker is Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). She is also the author of Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy (1996) and, with Jean Fox O'Barr, Feminism in Action: Building Institutions and Community through Women's Studies (1994).

• ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Introduction2 Medicine and Morality in the Nineteenth Century3 The Century of Silence4 Abortion Reform: The Professionals' Dilemma5 Women and the Right to Abortion6 The Emergence of the Right-to-Life Movement7 World Views of the Activists8 Motherhood and Morality in America9 The Future of the DebateAppendix 1: MethodologyAppendix 2: TablesNotesBibliographyIndex

Kristin Luker is Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). She is also the author of Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy (1996) and, with Jean Fox O'Barr, Feminism in Action: Building Institutions and Community through Women's Studies (1994).

• ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Introduction2 Medicine and Morality in the Nineteenth Century3 The Century of Silence4 Abortion Reform: The Professionals' Dilemma5 Women and the Right to Abortion6 The Emergence of the Right-to-Life Movement7 World Views of the Activists8 Motherhood and Morality in America9 The Future of the DebateAppendix 1: MethodologyAppendix 2: TablesNotesBibliographyIndex