Abortion, medicine and the law / edited by J. Douglas Butler and David F. Walbert.

Part one: The law
1. The rise and fall of the right-to-life movement in Congress : response to the Roe decision, 1973-1983
2. State legislatures versus the Supreme Court : abortion legislation in the 1980s
3. The abortion controversy : a study in law and politics
4. Minors' rights to confidential abortions : the evolving legal scene
5. The Supreme Court on abortion : a survey
6. Wrongful birth, wrongful life : emerging theories of liability
7. The law and history of abortion : the Supreme Court refuted

Part two: Medicine
8. The genesis of liberalized abortion in New York : a personal insight
9. Abortion practices in the United States : a medical viewpoint
10. The impact of an abnormal fetus or child on the choice for prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion
11. Demographic and public health experience with legal abortion : 1973-1980
12. The first decade of legal abortion in the United States : effects on maternal health
13. Abortion on request : the psychiatric implications

Part three. Ethics
14. Abortion : some ethical issues
15. Abortion and the conscience of the nation
16. The experience of pain by the unborn

Appendices
1. Decisions of the United States Supreme Court in January 1973 with respect to the Texas and Georgia Abortion Statutes
2. The Human Life Bill - testimony before the United States Senate
3. A proposed amendment ot the Constitution on abortion.