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Synopsis
Examines a crucial public policy issue--abortion--in comparative perspective.
Booknews
Begins a series examining public policy issues from an explicitly comparative approach; others being considered for future volumes include euthanasia, marriage and divorce, inheritance, drugs, public education, and other issues about which most governments have passed laws and most members of society have opinions. Here Simon (justice, American U.) covers the historical background, abortion statutes in selected countries worldwide, public attitudes based on responses to national opinion polls, and the relationship between policies on abortion and on population growth and control. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.