BOOKS
Abbott, Carl. Portland: Planning, Politics, and Growth in a Twentieth-Century City. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.
Barnett, Ruth. They Weep on My Doorstep. Beaverton, OR: Halo Publishers, 1969.
Bates, Jerome E. and Edward S. Zawadski. Criminal Abortion: A Study in Medical Sociology. Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas Publishers, 1964.
Bishop, Leonard. Creep Into Thy Narrow Bed. New York: The Dial Press, 1954.
Blake, Nelson M. The Road to Reno. New York: MacMillan, 1962.
Bromberg, Walter. Crime and the Mind: An Outline of Psychiatric Criminology. New York: Lippincott, 1948.
Calderone, Mary S., ed. Therapeutic Abortion in the United States. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958.
Chesler, Ellen. A Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.
Davis, Nanette. From Crime to Choice: The Transformation of Abortion in America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. New York: Knopf, 1953.
Donner, James. Women in Trouble: The Truth About Abortion in America. Derby, CT: Monarch Books, 1959.
Dr. X as told to Lucy Freeman. The Abortionist. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1962.
Dunbar, Flanders. Psychiatry in the Medical Specialities. New York: McGraw Hill, 1959.
Gordon, Linda. Women’s Body, Women’s Right: Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman, 1976.
Hall, Robert E., ed. Abortion in A Changing World, Vol 1. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.
Heilbrun, Carolyn G. Writing a Woman’s Life. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.
Kesselman, Amy. Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver during World War II and Reconversion. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1990.
Keve, Paul W. Prison, Probation or Parole: A Probation Officer Reports. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1954.
Knudten, Richard D. Crime in a Complex Society: An Introduction to Criminology. Homewood, IL: The Dorsey Press, 1970.
Lacey, Robert. Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life. Boston: Little Brown, 1991.
Lader, Lawrence. Abortion. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966.
Lait, Jack and Lee Mortimer. U.S.A. Confidential. New York: Crown, 1952.
Laxalt, Robert. Nevada: A Bicentennial History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1977.
Lee, Nancy Howell. The Search for an Abortionist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.
Luker, Kristin. Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
Lundberg, Ferdinand and Marynia F. Farnham. Modern Woman: The Lost Sex. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1947.
MacColl, E. Kimbark. The Growth of a City: Power and Politics in Portland, Oregon 1915-1950. Portland, OR: The Georgian Press, 1976.
McLaren, Angus. A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Miller, Patricia G. The Worst of Times: Illegal Abortion—Survivors, Practitioners, Coroners, Cops, and Children of Women Who Died Talk About Its Horrors. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993.
Mohr, James C. Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Montgomery, David. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Newman, Sidney H., Mildred B. Beck, and Sarah Lewit, eds. Abortion Obtained and Denied: Research Perspectives. New York: Population Council, 1971.
New York State Supreme Court, King’s County. A Presentment on the Suppression of Criminal Abortion by the Grand Jury for the Extra-ordinary Special and Trial Term. New York: The Hamilton Press, 1941.
Olasky, Marvin. The Press and Abortion, 1838-1988. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 1988.
Overstreet, Edmund W., ed. Therapeutic Abortion and Sterilization. New York: Harper and Row, 1964.
Petchesky, Rosalind Pollack. Abortion and Women’s Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990.
Reckless, Walter C. The Crime Problem. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1961.
Rosen, Harold. Therapeutic Abortion. New York: The Julian Press, 1954.
Schur, Edwin. Crimes Without Victims: Deviant Behavior and Public Policy. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1965.
Slovenko, Ralph, ed. Sexual Behavior and the Law. Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas Publishers, 1965.
Smith, David T., ed. Abortion and the Law. Cleveland, OH: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1967.
Solinger, Rickie. “Extreme Danger: Women Abortionists and Their Clients Before Roe v. Wade.” In Not June Cleaver: Women in Postwar America, edited by Joanne Meyerowitz. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
Solinger, Rickie. Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Susman, Warren I. Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century. New York: Pantheon, 1984.
Taussig, Frederick. Abortion, Spontaneous and Induced: Medical and Social Aspects. St. Louis, MO: C.V. Mosby Co., 1936. The Abortion Problem.Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1944.
Wade, Carlson. Butchers in Waiting: The Shocking Story of Abortion in the USA. New York: Chariot, 1960.
West, Ray B., Jr. Rocky Mountain Cities. New York: W.W. Norton, 1949.
ARTICLES
Barno, Alex. “Criminal Abortion Deaths, Illegitimate Pregnancy Deaths, and Suicide in Pregnancy: Minnesota 1950-65.” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 98 (June, 1967): 356-67.
Bolter, Sidney. “The Psychiatrists’s Role in Therapeutic Abortion: The Unwitting Accomplice.” The American Journal of Psychiatry 119 (September, 1962): 312-16.
Fisher, Russell S. “Criminal Abortion.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 42 (July-August, 1951): 242-49.
Friedman, Jacob H. “The Vagarity of Psychiatric Indications of Therapeutic Abortion.” American Journal of Psychotherapy 16(April, 1962): 251-54.
Frost, Jack. “Abortion—Need for Legalized Abortion.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 29 (November, 1938): 596.
Gold, Edwin M., Carl L. Erhardt, Harold Jacobziner, and Frieda G. Nelson. “Therapeutic Abortions in New York City: A Twenty Year Review.” American Journal of Public Health 55(July, 1965): 964-72.
Hall, Robert E. “The New York Abortion Survey.” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 93(1965): 1182.
Hamlin, Anita. “Portland’s New Mayor.” Independent Woman 27 (August, 1948): 237-38.
Harrington, J.A. “Psychiatric Indications for the Termination of Pregnancy.” Practitioner 185 (November, 1960): 654-58.
Heffernan, Roy J. and William A. Lynch. “What is the Status of Therapeutic Abortion in Medical Obstetrics?” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 66 (October, 1953): 335-45.
Henker, Fred O. III. “Abortion and Sterilization from Psychiatric and Medio-Legal Viewpoints.” Journal of the Arkansas Medical Society (February, 1961): 368-73.
Ingram, James M., H.S.B. Treloar, G. Phillips Thomas, and Edward B. Rood. “Interruption of Pregnancy for Psychiatric Indications—A Suggested Method of Control.” Obstetrics and Gynecology 29 (February, 1967): 251-55.
Israel, S. Leon. “Editorials: Therapeutic Abortion.” Postgraduate Medicine 33 (June, 1963): 619-20.
Joffe, Carole. “Portraits of Three ‘Physicians of Conscience’ Abortion Before Legalization in the United States.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 2 (July, 1991): 46-67.
Johnson, John. “Termination of Pregnancy on Psychiatric Grounds.” Medical Gynecology and Sociology 1 (1966): 2-6.
Leavy, Zad and Jerome M. Kummer. “Criminal Abortion: Human Hardship and Unyielding Laws.” Southern California Law Review 35(Winter, 1962): 123-48.
Leavy, Zad and Jerome M. Kummer. “Let’s Talk About Abortions.” Police (July-August, 1961): 15-16.
Lehfeldt, Hans. “Willfull Exposure to Unwanted Pregnancy: Psychological Explanations for Patient Failures in Contraception.” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 78 (September, 1959): 661-65.
Levine, Arnold S. “The Problem of Psychiatric Disturbances in Relation to Therapeutic Abortion.” Journal of the Albert Einstein Medical Center 6 (1958): 73-78.
Loth, Myrna and H. Close Hesseltine. “Therapeutic Abortion at the Chicago Lying-in Hospital.” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 72 (August, 1956): 304-11.
Martin, John Bartlow. “Abortion.” Parts 1-3. Saturday Evening Post. (May 20, 1961): 19ff; (May 27, 1961): 20ff; (June 3, 1961): 25ff.
“Maternal Mortality in Fifteen States.” U.S. Children’s Bureau, Publication No. 33, 1939.
May, Joseph. “Therapeutic Abortion in North Carolina.” North Carolina Medical Journal 23 (December, 1962): 547-51.
Moore, J.G. and J.H. Randall. “Trends in Therapeutic Abortion: A Review of 137 Cases.” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 63 (January, 1952): 28-40.
Neuberger, Maurine. “Portland’s First Lady.” New York Times Magazine (November 21, 1948): 33-34.
Packer, Herbert L. and Ralph J. Gampell. “Therapeutic Abortion: A Legal and Medical Problem.” Stanford Law Review 11 (May, 1959): 417-55.
Pearse, Harry A. and Harold A. Ott. “Hospital Control of Sterilization and Therapeutic Abortion.” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 60 (August, 1950): 285-301.
Pitzer, Paul. “Dorothy McCullough Lee: The Successes and Failures of Oottie-Do-Good’ ” Oregon Historical Quarterly (Spring, 1990): 5-44.
“Reflections of an Abortionist.” Family Planning 16(1967): 51-55.
Rosenberg, Allan J. and Emmanuel Silver. “Suicide, Psychiatrists, and Therapeutic Abortion.” California Medicine 102 (June, 1965): 407-11.
Russell, Keith P. “Changing Indications for Therapeutic Abortion: Twenty Years Experience at L.A. County Hospital.” Journal of the American Medical Association (January 10, 1953): 108-11.
Savel, Lewis E. “Adjudication of Therapeutic Abortion and Sterilization.” Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology 7 (1964): 14-21.
Savel, Lewis E. and Irving K. Perlmutter. “Therapeutic Abortion and Sterilization Committee: A Three Year Experience.” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 80 (December, 1960): 1192-99.
Scherman, Quinten. “Therapeutic Abortion.” Obstetrics and Gynecology 11 (March, 1958): 325-35.
Solinger, Rickie. “A Complete Disaster: Abortion and the Politics of Hospital Abortion Committees, 1950-1970.” Feminist Studies 19 (Summer, 1993): 241-68.
Southeimer, Morton. “Abortion in American Today.” Women’s Home Companion (October, 1955): 44ff.
Star, Jack. “One Million A Year: The Growing Tragedy of Abortion.” Look (October 19, 1965): 151ff.
“The Abortion Menace.” Ebony (January, 1951): 21ff.
“The Abortion Racket: What Should be Done?” Newsweek (August 15, 1960): 51.
Tietze, Christopher. “Abortion as a Cause of Death.” American Journal of Public Health 38 (October, 1948): 1434-41.
Tulkoff, Myer S. “Legal and Social Control of Abortion.” Kentucky Law Review 40 (May, 1952): 410-16.
“When a Lady Runs the Town.” The Ladies Home Journal (January, 1952): 49ff.
Woodside, Moya. “Attitudes of Women Abortionists.” Howard Journal. 11 (1962): 93-111.
PORTLAND DOCUMENTS
Portland City Council Minutes: June 28, 1951; July 5, 1951; July 10, 1951; November 17, 1955; June 2, 1966. Portland City Archives.
“City Club Report on Law Enforcement in Portland and Multnomah County” (1948). Copy on file at the City Club, Portland, Oregon.
The Vollmer Report (1948). Portland City Archives.
St. James, Margaret. “The Abortionist’s Daughter.” Unpublished manuscript.
The Conscience of a City: The City Club of Portland. Portland: City Club, 1966.
Papers of State Senator Victor Atiyeh, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon.
Uris, Joseph. “Trouble in River City: An Analysis of an Urban Vice Probe.” Ph.D. thesis, Portland State University, 1981.
INTERVIEWS
Margaret St. James. Interview with author. Ocala, Florida, June 21-23, 1992; Portland, Oregon, Nov. 8-10, 1992.
Dorothy Taylor. Telephone conversation with author, July 12, 1992.
Rolla Crick. Interview by Judy Lewis, 1992. Transcript supplied by Judy Lewis; telephone conversation with author, Jan. 22, 1994.
NEWSPAPERS
The Oregonian, 1940-1970.
The Oregon Journal, 1940-1970.
The Los Angeles Times, 1936.
The Reno Evening Gazette, 1940.
The Wichita Beacon, 1952, 1954.
The New York Times, abortion-and birth control-related articles 1935-1975.
TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS
TRANSCRIPTS RELATED TO RUTH BARNETT AND REGINALD RANKIN
People of the State of California v. R.L Rankin et al. (1936). Transcript in California State Archives, Sacramento.
People of the State of California v. Laura K. Miner, Nedra Montana Cordon, and Josephine M. Page (1949). Transcript in California State Archives, Sacramento.
State of Nevada v. Cushing et al. (1940). Preliminary examination. Transcript in Reno Courthouse.
State of Oregon v. Ruth Barnett (1966) #15959. Transcript in Oregon State Archives, Salem.
State of Oregon v. Ruth Barnett (1966) #15870. Transcript in Oregon State Archives, Salem.
ADDITIONAL TRANSCRIPTS
People of the State of California v. Sophie Alvarez (1945). Transcript in California State Archives, Sacramento.
State of New Jersey v. Hazel King (1945). Transcripts in New Jersey State Library, Trenton.
State of New Jersey v. Boyd and Cawthan (1947). Transcript in New Jersey State Library, Trenton.
People of the State of California v. May Ramsey (1947). Transcript in California State Archives, Sacramento.
State of California v. Geraldine Rhoades (1948). Transcript in California State Archives, Sacramento.
State of California v. Virginia Macias Garcia (1948). Transcript in California State Archives, Sacramento.
People of the State of California v. Alta Anderson, Mae Rodley and Gertrude Jenkins (1948). Transcript in California State Archives, Sacramento.
State of South Carolina v. Ida Steadman (1948). Transcript in University of South Carolina Law Library, Columbia.
People of the State of California v. Alta Anderson et al. (1949). Transcript in California State Archives, Sacramento.
State of Missouri v. Sophie Celine Miller (1951). Transcript in Missouri Supreme Court Library, Jefferson City.
State of California v. Lena Califro and Andrew Mareck (1952). Transcript in California State Archives, Sacramento.
People of the State of California v. Mickey Vosburg and Marie Vosburg (1953). Transcript in California State Archives, Sacramento.
State of Missouri v. Ida Lillian Hacker (1954). Transcript in Missouri Supreme Court Library, Jefferson City.
State of Louisiana v. Electra Dore (1955). Transcript in New Iberia Courthouse.
State of North Carolina v. Lucille Roper Furley(1956). Transcript in North Carolina State Supreme Court Law Library, Raleigh.
State of New Jersey v. Eva Muzynska, Irene Musconsky, Walter Musconsky, and William Sudol (1956). Transcript in New Jersey State Library, Trenton.
People of the State of California v. Vera Odmann and Stanley Odmann(1957). Transcript in California State Archives, Sacramento.
State of Missouri v. Fraulein Scown (alias Judy Anderson) (1957). Transcript in Missouri Supreme Court Library, Jefferson City.
State of California v. Esther demons (1959). Transcript in California State Archives, Sacramento.
People of the State of California v. Petra Virgil (1959). Transcript in California State Archives, Sacramento.
People of the State of California v. Ruth Bawden (1960). Transcript in California State Archives, Sacramento.
People of the State of California v. Ester demons (1960). Transcript in California State Archives, Sacramento.
State of North Carolina v. Geneva Phifer Hoover and Florence Stallworth (1960). Transcript in North Carolina State Supreme Court Law Library, Raleigh.
Faye Wasserman, Probation hearing, March 27, 1962. Transcript in New Jersey State Library, Trenton.
ADDITIONAL TRIALS
Griffrida v. the State of Georgia, 7 SE 34 (1940).
State of North Carolina v. Forte, 23 SE 2d 842 (1943).
Smith v. the State of Oklahoma, 175 P 2d 348 (1946).
State of North Carolina v. Jordon, 42 SE 2d 674 (1947).
State of Missouri v. Seddon, 208 SW 2d 212 (1948).
State of New Jersey v. Lillian Del Gobbo Vince, 67 A 2d 141 (1949).
Beigun v. the State of Georgia, 58 SE 2d 149 (1950).
Roberta Jarquin v. the State of Texas, 232 SW 2d 736 (1950).
Eva Hodges Housman v. the State of Texas, 230 SW 2d 541 (1950).
Soldaat v. the State of Georgia, 57 SE 2d 705 (1950).
People of Louisiana v. Alien, 231 P 2d 896 (1951).
People of the State of Illinois v. Helen Stanko, 95 NE 2d 861 (1951).
Adams et al. v. the State of Maryland, 88 A 2d 566 (1952).
Ruth Hutson et al. v. the State of Maryland, 96 A 2d 593 (1953).
State of Ohio v. Mary Paige, 120 NE 2d 504 (1954).
Emma Cortez v. the State of Texas, 275 SW 2d 123 (1954).
People of Illinois v. Mary Murawski, 117 NE 2d 88 (1954).
Clara Mayberry v. the State of Texas, 271 SW 2d 635 (1954).
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Dorothea G. Willard, 116 A 2d 751 (1955).
Maria Wasy v. the State of Indiana, 123 NE 2d 462 (1955).
State of Missouri v. Ida Lillian Hacker, 291 SW 2d 155 (1956).
People of the State of Illinois v. Catherine Heidman, 144 NE 2d 580 (1957).
State of Texas v. Mary Martinez Romero, 308 SW 2d 49 (1957).
LD. Parnell v. the State of Texas, 312 SW 2d 506 (1958).
State of Kentucky v. Anna Danzell, 312 SW 2d 354 (1958).
Carrie Bell Phillips v. the State of Mississippi, 123 So. 2d 499 (1960).
People of the State of California v. John L. Flynn, 217 Cal. Reptr. 2d 289 (1961).
People v. Florita Gomez, 194 NE 2d 299 (Illinois, 1963).
Jesse Catching v. the State of Texas, 364 SW 2d 691 (1963).
People of New York State v. Nan Lovell, 242 NYS 2d 958 (1963).
State of Minnesota v. Josephine Delores Zecher, 128 NW 2d 83 (1964).
Rodriguez et al v. the State of Florida, 183 So. 2d 656 (1966).
Minnie Lee Webster v. the State of Tennessee, 425 SW 2d 799 (1968).