B
Baby farms, 298 n8
"Back-alley butchers," 133 , 304 n4
Bacon, Dr. Charles Sumner, 23 , 82 , 90 , 267 n9;
and Sheppard-Towner Act, 111
Baker, Dr. S. Josephine, 295 n112
Ballard, Martha, 31
Baltimore: abortion clinics in, 158 ;
midwives of, 281 n81. See also Johns Hopkins University; Timanus, Dr. George Loutrell
Bar associations, in abortion rights movement, 222
Barrett, James R, 292 n76
Bastardy. See Illegitimacy
Bellevue Hospital (New York), 136
Belous, Dr. Leon, 233 , 235 , 236 , 337 n81
Bérubé, Michael, 204
Birth control, 26 , 41 , 42 , 196 ;
availability of, 117 , 134 , 196 , 229 ;
class as factor in, 40 -41;
economic reasons for, 35 -36;
effectiveness of, 229 ;
as genocide, 232 ;
insurance for, 341 n20;
legalization of, 134 , 323 n111;
physicians' dispensing of, 134 , 139 , 296 n115;
popular support for, 111 ;
public debate on, 6 -7;
racism in, 231 ;
religious publications on, 262 n17. See also names of individual methods
Birth control clinics, 111 ;
of Chicago, 37 ;
of Depression era, 306 n19;
opposition to, 296 n115;
working-class women in, 23
Birth control movement, 6 -7, 220 ;
AMA in, 134 ;
criticism of medical profession, 111 ;
on family size, 273 n94;
perspective on abortion, 36 -42, 141 , 142 , 143 , 272 n76, 309 n48;
professionals in, 142 ;
and "race suicide," 104 ;
response of organized religion to, 6 -7, 262 n18;
test cases in, 189 , 323 n111. See also Planned Parenthood
Birth Control Review , 37 , 41 . See also Sanger, Margaret
Birth rate: nineteenth-century, 11 ;
rise in, 163
Black Panther Party, 334 -50
Blood transfusions, 162 , 339 n5
Bolter, Dr. Sidney, 203
Borst, Charlotte, 283 n97
Bourne, Dr. Aleck, 175 , 176 ;
challenge to abortion law, 182 , 189 -90, 220
Breastfeeding, mandatory, 28 , 270 n39
Brickman, Jane Pacht, 288 n42, 295 n111
Brookes, Barbara, 27
Brooks, Sara, 137 -48
Brown, Elaine, 334 -n50
Brown v. Board of Education , 189
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs, 27 , 297 n3
Buettner, Dr. Adolph, 129