Table of cases -- Table of statutes -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The first statutory prohibition of abortion: Lord Ellenborough's Act 1803 -- 2. Anti-abortion legislation 1803-1861 and medical influence thereon -- 3. Abortion in legal theory and medical practice before 1938 -- 4. The medical profession and the enactment of the Abortion Act 1967 -- 5. The Abortion Act 1967 and the performance of abortion by the medical profession 1968-1982 -- 6. The reaction of the medical profession to proposed restriction of the law 1969-1979 -- 7. A theoretical overview -- Appendices
