The Author of Her Trouble: Abortion in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth- Century Judicial Discourses
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Introduction .................................................... 431 I. Background: Common Law and Criminalization ........... 433 II. Women in the Courts: "Victim" Explained ................. 438 A . Consent ................ ............................ 439 B. Accomplice Liability, Agency, and Necessity of Testim ony ........................................... 443 C. Dying Declarations .................................. 445 D . Conspiracy .......................................... 447 E. Sympathy? .......................................... 450 F. Judicial Expectations for Male Behavior .............. 453 III. Women Subvert the Status of "Victim" . ................... 455 C onclusion ..................................................... 461
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