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Every Third Woman in America: How Legal Abortion Transformed Our Nation
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Grimes DA (with Brandon LG). Carolina Beach, NC: Daymark Publishing, 2014. ISBN-13: 978-0-990-83360-4. Price: £14.69. Pages: 444 (paperback)
This is a book by the well-known obstetrician/gynaecologist and epidemiologist David Grimes, aimed at the general public. Readers will need to be numerate to appreciate it fully. It is packed with solid evidence (985 references) and numerous graphs to back up his remarks. To counterbalance the data the book is illustrated with case histories from his extensive experience. As Grimes says, he can remember back to the days before Roe v Wade. Although the …