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Author Garrow, David J., 1953- author.

Title Liberty and sexuality : the right to privacy and the making of Roe v. Wade / David J. Garrow.

Publication Info. New York : Macmillan Publishing Company ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, [1994]

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  342.73 GARROW    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  342.73 GAR    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  342.7385 GAR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  342.0858 G19    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  342.7385 GARROW    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  342.7385 G243L    Check Shelf
Description v, 981 pages ; 25 cm
Note "A Lisa Drew book."
"A Twentieth Century Fund book"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 916-945) and index.
Contents 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, and the U.S. Supreme Court, 1954-1961 -- Creating the right to privacy : Estelle Griswold and the U.S. Supreme Court, 1961-1965 -- Lonely voices : abortion reformers and 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 and the U.S. Supreme Court, 1971-1973 -- Liberty & sexuality since Roe v. Wade.
Summary 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.
Subject Abortion -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Birth control -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Sex and law -- United States -- History.
Privacy, Right of -- United States -- History.
Jurisprudence -- history. (DNLM)D007603Q000266
Abortion, Criminal -- history. (DNLM)D000024Q000266
Contraception -- history. (DNLM)D003267Q000266
Sexual Behavior -- history. (DNLM)D012725Q000266
History, 20th Century. (DNLM)D049673
United States. (DNLM)D014481
86.52 civil rights. (NL-LeOCL)07760816X
86.66 health care law, law of patients. (NL-LeOCL)077608291
Abortion -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00794598
Birth control -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00833175
Privacy, Right of. (OCoLC)fst01077444
Sex and law. (OCoLC)fst01114252
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Abortion -- Law and legislation -- History.
Birth control -- Law and legislation -- History.
Right of privacy -- History.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Online version: Garrow, David J., 1953- Liberty and sexuality. New York : Macmillan Pub. Co. ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1994 (OCoLC)608587957
Online version: Garrow, David J., 1953- Liberty and sexuality. New York : Macmillan Pub. Co. ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1994 (OCoLC)623191097
ISBN 0025427555
9780025427556
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