Introduction: The life or death of innocent life -- Street level vs. suite level -- Unsafe, illegal, and rare, 1652-1842: Common law, common sense -- Murder of a manchild -- Pressuring the father -- Bitter execrations -- An oath for midwives -- Double robbery of life -- A fallen, pro-life founder -- Laws and scofflaws -- Insufficient protection for women -- Specialization begins, 1838-1878: A fatal needle -- The welfare of two patients -- Madame Restell -- An unstoppable force? -- A moral maelstrom -- The unwelcome child -- Doctors push back -- Massacres -- Compassion vs. abortion -- Thugs of society -- Supply and demand, 1871-1940: A much pulverized reporter -- The victims are... -- So much rascality -- Horror stories at century's end -- Medical heroines -- The erring woman's refuge -- Weak-kneed enforcement -- Old-school abortionists -- Twentiety-century compassion -- Million-dollar hands -- Seeing life, 1930-1995: Linkages -- Complicated lives -- Losing the baby -- Playing the danger card -- The father of abortion rights -- Eroded ethic -- On the disassembly line -- Pro-life frustration -- Pictures seen and unseen -- Cacophony and compassion -- Still unsettled, 1995-2022: Window to the womb -- Loving your unborn neighbor -- Sensational facts -- Aborting alone -- Incremental vs. radical -- The abortion-industrial complex -- A new enforcement mechanism -- Their one person -- Egregiously wrong -- Epilogue.
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