Abortion in the American Imagination: Before Life and Choice, 1880-1940The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe v. Wade, to long before the terms "pro choice" and "pro life" were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the early decades of the twentieth century had little in common with our now entrenched debates about personal responsibility and individual autonomy. Abortion in the American Imagination returns to the moment when American writers first dared to broach the