Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
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Joanna L. Grossman: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5234-8058
Abstract
In 1860, in Nevada County, California, a young woman, Clara Davis, died in her home. She had given birth, secretly, during the night. The baby had been spirited away by a man named Henry McCracken, who also lived in the house, and who was presumably the father of the child. The facts strongly suggested that the child had been born prematurely, as a result of an induced abortion. McCracken had applied to a physician for abortion medication, which he administered to Clara, supposedly for back pains, but in reality "knowingly ... to procure an abortion." McCracken was arrested and put in the county jail...
Publication Title
Women’s Rights Law Reporter
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Joanna L. Grossman & Lawrence M. Friedman, The Quick and the Dead: The Uses and Misuses of History in Abortion Jurisprudence, 46 Women’s Rts. L. Rep. 1 (2024)
