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You’Re So Vain, I’Ll Bet You Think This Song Is About You, Joseph W. Dellapenna
You’Re So Vain, I’Ll Bet You Think This Song Is About You, Joseph W. Dellapenna
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Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History covers over 1,000 years of abortion history in England and America, with special emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It presents an accurate and thoroughly fresh look at that history, reaching several unorthodox conclusions without taking sides on the merits of the abortion debate. The true history of abortion in England and America is important because Justice Harry Blackmun, drawing on the work of law professor Cyril Means, structured the argument of the majority in Roe v. Wade around the history of abortion laws. Means’ argument was later buttressed by the work of …