January 17, 2006

New Book Reviewed:  The Physicians' Crusade Against Abortion

The Physicians' Crusade Against Abortion
by Frederick N. Dyer,  2005
Watson Publishing International
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List Price is $39.95 (hardback)

II cannot express the eager anticipation which gripped me when the new book The Physicians’ Crusade Against Abortion arrived! The book brims with superb documentation of how the ethical physicians of the 19th century fought to defeat criminal abortion. Dr. Dyer uses Dr. Storer’s life and the writings of like-minded physicians to demonstrate, how with the assistance of legislators, the legal profession, the clergy, and the newspapers, abortion moved from the dark fringes to a major concern of society.

The extensive, voluminous, and varied direct quotes from numerous sources reveal the same nefarious arguments were used in the past to justify abortions. The Physicians’ Crusade Against Abortion effectively exposes the lies, distortions, greed, and harm to women expressed by the 19th physicians with a prescient and frightening clarity applicable today in the war against abortions. Dr. Dyer’s book belongs in the library of any serious student of the history of abortion and its effects on American society.

Bryon C. Calhoun, M.D.