Episode 196: The History of Abortion in Mormonism

In this episode, Lindsay talks with Dr. Amanda Hendrix-Komoto about the history of abortions in Mormonism.

Links mentioned in this episode:

* R. Lanier Britsch, Unto the Islands of the Sea: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Pacific

* Hokulani Aikau, A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai‘i

* Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific 

* Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, “The Other Crime: Abortion and Contraception in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Utah” in Dialogue

* Jennifer Holland, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement

* Joshua Prager, The Family Roe

* Leslie Reagan, Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America 

* Linda Gordon, The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America

* Leslie Reagan, When Abortion was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and the Law in United States, 1867 – 1973

* Nicholas Syrett, The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion Illegal