Cover; Titlepage; Copyright; Contents; List of Acronyms; Acknowledgments; Timeline of Significant Events; Introduction; 1. "I'd Never Had Pain Like That-A Searing, Dying Agony": Racialized Clandestine Abortion; 2. "South Africa Is Experiencing an All-Out Attack by Permissiveness": Communism, Immorality, and the Disintegration of Apartheid Culture; 3. "My Uterus Belongs to Me":The Campaign for Abortion Law Reform; 4. "The Trial the World Is Watching":The Crichton-Watts Trial, 1972; 5. "Subjected to Relentless and Grueling Cross-Examination": The Crichton-Maharaj Trial, 1973
6. "Reclaiming the White Daughter's Purity":The Passage of the 1975 Abortion and SterilizationAct7. "The Actual Matter Is with Us Whites":Abortion and the "Black Peril"; 8. "The Law Is a Total Failure":Abortion from 1975 to the End of Apartheid; Conclusion; Appendix:The Abortion and Sterilization Act (1975); Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Abortion Under Apartheid examines the criminalization of abortion in South Africa during apartheid (1948-1990) and its impact on women of all ""races"" determined to terminate unwanted pregnancies. It also traces the emergence of a movement for abortion law reform and the 1975 passage of South Africa's first statutory law on abortion
