Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America by Leslie J. Reagan

Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America

Leslie J. Reagan

372 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Dangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national anxiety about dying, disabled, and "dangerous" babies. This epidemic would ultimately transform abortion politics...

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