Download or read book Abortion and the Unwanted Child written by California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion and published by New York : Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 1971 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What does life hold out, socially and mentally, for the unwanted child? How such "orphans of living" fare in today's world is the first concern of several of these studies and is further explored in a supplementary survey of 120 children who were born after their mothers refused therapeutic abortions. Comparing the lives of these children through age 21 with those of an appropriate control group, the survey is one of four studies that have been added to the presentation, which brings together papers delivered at the California Conference on Abortion (San Francisco, May 9-11, 1969)... Among the papers in his book is one dealing with legislative and judicial development in the field since the Conference; another on the matter of payment for medical care in abortion cases"--