SuitabookA Woman's Right to an Abortion
D. J. Herda
- Reading
- Use the chronology to orient your reading, then pause over the primary documents and consider how they relate to the book’s account of the case.
- Themes
- Roe v. Wade and abortion rights: The book covers the case’s background and path to the Supreme Court, its majority and dissenting opinions, and continuing policy and legal impact. The listed opinions and historical material suggest an informational account of the case, but do not establish how the book frames the underlying disagreement.
- Worth knowing
- Abortion rights and court decisions are politically and personally sensitive subjects. The book’s treatment of the competing opinions and their context may be worth discussing together.