@article{348000,
      recid = {348000},
      author = {Reagan, Leslie J.},
      title = {Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and  abortion in America /},
      publisher = {University of California Press,},
      address = {Berkeley :},
      pages = {xv, 372 p. ;},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {This work tells the largely forgotten story of the German  measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created  national anxiety about dying, disabled, and "dangerous"  babies. This epidemic would ultimately transform abortion  politics, produce new science, and help build two of the  most enduring social movements of the late twentieth  century, the reproductive rights and the disability rights  movements. At most a minor rash and fever for women, German  measles (also known as rubella), if contracted during  pregnancy, could result in miscarriages, infant deaths, and  serious birth defects in the newborn. The author chronicles  for the first time the discoveries and dilemmas of this  disease in a book full of intimate stories, including  riveting courtroom testimony, secret investigations of  women and doctors for abortion, and startling media  portraits of children with disabilities. In exploring a  disease that changed America, this book illuminates social  movements that still shape individual lives, pregnancy,  medicine, law, and politics.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/348000},
}