A Private Choice: Abortion in America in the Seventies [Hardcover]

John Thomas Noonan (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 244 pages
• Publisher: Free Pr (June 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0029231604
• ISBN-13: 978-0029231609
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,920,242 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still a must-read., December 15, 1997

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This review is from: A Private Choice: Abortion in America in the Seventies (Hardcover)

Don't let the title fool you: this book did not become obsolete in 1980. Noonan provides a primer in Constitutional law as it applies to abortion in America. More recent cases have only built on their predecessors, so by all means read this important book.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It Changed My Mind, November 29, 2003

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M. Gerdes "megagordo" (Louisville, KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Private Choice: Abortion in America in the Seventies (Hardcover)

I found this book in a box full of old books while staying at a friend's house ten years ago. It didn't seem like the kind of book you curl up with, but that is just what I ended up doing. The book was written in 1979, but it illuminates things that are going on even now and explains the legal background and elite cultural attitudes behind them. It also clears up a lot of misconceptions and outright falsehoods that are passed along "Telephone-Game"-style, by the media.

The tone of the book is fair, reasonable, measured and even scholarly. Noonan is no Ann Coulter or James Carville.

I was pro-choice 10 years ago. I am now pro-life, and John Noonan's book had a lot to do with that change. Don't read it if you don't like having your positions challenged.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still a must-read, May 24, 2006

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Christina Dunigan (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Private Choice: Abortion in America in the Seventies (Hardcover)

Don't let the title fool you: this book did not become obsolete in 1980. Noonan provides a primer in Constitutional law as it applies to abortion in America. More recent cases have only built on their predecessors, so by all means read this important book.