From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969

In From Back Alley to the Border, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California...
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From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 by Gutierrez-Romine, Alicia

From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969

CHF 119.35

From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969

CHF 119.35
Author: Alicia Gutierrez-Romine
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In From Back Alley to the Border, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers played in exposing and exploiting the faults in California's anti-abortion statute throughout the twentieth century. Focused on the women who used this underground network and the physicians who facilitated it, Gutierrez-Romine describes the operation of abortion providers from the 1920s through the 1960s, including regular physicians as well as women and African American abortionists, and the investigations and trials that surrounded them.

During the 1930s the Pacific Coast Abortion Ring, a large, coast-wide, and comparatively safe organized abortion syndicate, became the target of law enforcement agencies, forcing abortions across the border into Mexico and ushering in an era of Tijuana "abortion tourism" in the early 1950s. The movement south of the border ultimately compelled the California Supreme Court to rule its abortion statute "void for vagueness" in People v. Belous in 1969--four years before Roe v. Wade.

Gutierrez-Romine presents the first book focused on abortion on the West Coast and the border between the United States and Mexico and provides a new approach to studying how providers of illegal abortions and their female clients navigated this underground network.


Author: Alicia Gutierrez-Romine
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 11/01/2020
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781496211835


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2021

About the Author
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine is an assistant professor of history at La Sierra University.



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