Description:This resource guide follows a 1300 year timeline on the evolution of criminality for inducing or procuring abortions, beginning with predecessors to English common law and following to modern interpretations of constitutional law. The primary focus lies between 1787 and 1868, spanning ratification of the US Constitution to ratification of its Fourteenth Amendment, during which rapid advancements in embryology and medicine led to a paradigm shift on sentiment concerning the unborn among numerous nations of the world. Because of this shift, legislatures in many states and territories saw it necessary to replace deficiencies in outdated common law with new statutes that would clearly define parameters of the crimes and appropriate sentencing. The book's historical timeline heavily relies upon primary sources, citing state-by-state surveys of every criminal abortion statute, plus numerous medical journals, embryology textbooks, court cases, legislative journals, committee reports, memoirs, and lectures by high-profile individuals. All quotations are hyperlinked to Internet archives and repositories to view the full context. The majority of pages also include high-resolution image scans of original documents inline with the text describing them.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Criminal Abortion Laws Before the Fourteenth Amendment. To get started finding Criminal Abortion Laws Before the Fourteenth Amendment, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
129
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Daniel Gump
Release
2021
ISBN
KodkAAAAMAAJ
Criminal Abortion Laws Before the Fourteenth Amendment
Description: This resource guide follows a 1300 year timeline on the evolution of criminality for inducing or procuring abortions, beginning with predecessors to English common law and following to modern interpretations of constitutional law. The primary focus lies between 1787 and 1868, spanning ratification of the US Constitution to ratification of its Fourteenth Amendment, during which rapid advancements in embryology and medicine led to a paradigm shift on sentiment concerning the unborn among numerous nations of the world. Because of this shift, legislatures in many states and territories saw it necessary to replace deficiencies in outdated common law with new statutes that would clearly define parameters of the crimes and appropriate sentencing. The book's historical timeline heavily relies upon primary sources, citing state-by-state surveys of every criminal abortion statute, plus numerous medical journals, embryology textbooks, court cases, legislative journals, committee reports, memoirs, and lectures by high-profile individuals. All quotations are hyperlinked to Internet archives and repositories to view the full context. The majority of pages also include high-resolution image scans of original documents inline with the text describing them.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Criminal Abortion Laws Before the Fourteenth Amendment. To get started finding Criminal Abortion Laws Before the Fourteenth Amendment, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.