A Question of Choice: Roe v. Wade 40th Anniversary EditionThe incredible story of how a twenty-seven-year-old lawyer won Roe v. Wade, and what it means forty years later. |
Contents
Foreword by Cecile Richards Introduced by Rebecca Seawright
| 9 |
Beginnings
| 15 |
Yearning for More Choices for Women | 21 |
The Roots of Roe v Wade
| 41 |
Off to Washington
| 66 |
Preparing for Supreme Court Argument
| 95 |
A Great Day in Court
| 120 |
VICTORY | 157 |
Words of Choice
| 253 |
Remembering the Past Looking to the Future
| 282 |
A Plan to Fight for Reproductive Rights
| 292 |
A Few Last Comments
| 310 |
Acknowledgments
| 313 |
About the Author
| 317 |
Also Available From the Feminist Press
| 318 |
About the Feminist Press
| 326 |
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