Liberty and sexuality : the right to privacy and the making of Roe v. Wade : Garrow, David J., 1953- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

"A Lisa Drew book."

"A Twentieth Century Fund book"--Verso of t.p

Includes bibliographical references (p. 916-945) and index

The Waterbury origins of Roe v. Wade -- No further service: Connecticut's struggle for the legalization of birth control, 1940-1953 -- One vote shy: Estelle Griswold, Fowler Harper, & the U.S. Supreme Court, 1954-1961 -- Creating the right to privacy: Estelle Griswold & the U.S. Supreme Court, 1961-1965 -- Lonely voices: abortion reformers & the origins of change, 1933-1967 -- From reform to repeal: the right to abortion, 1967-1969 -- Into the courts: Roe, Doe, & the right to abortion, 1969-1971 -- The right to abortion & the U.S. Supreme Court, 1971-1973 -- Liberty & sexuality since Roe v. Wade

The author follows the "right to privacy" from its beginnings in the attempts to repeal the Connecticut law banning birth control in the 1930s to the 1965 "Griswald v. Connecticut" decision and the 1973 "Roe v. Wade" decision to the present abortion and gay rights cases