Morgentaler, Dr. Henry — Abortion and Contraception

Don Mills, Ontario General Publishing and Printed by R.R. Donnelley & Sons First edition pp. xvi, 201. 8vo. Brown cloth boards; gilt lettering to spine. No detectable flaws, contents clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good lightly rubbed dustjacket showing one very short closed tear to the top edge of the front panel, faint tide mark to the lower margin of the rear panel. Overall, very good+. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to the title page. Dr. Henry Morgentaler was a Polish born Canadian physician, Holocaust survivor and a pro-choice activist. His battles with the Quebec judicial authorities led to landmark rulings and established important judicial precedents (namely, The Morgentaler Amendment). In R v Morgentaler, The Supreme Court of Canada struck down the 1969 abortion law under which Morgentaler was charged. The court also declared the statute in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and thus unconstitutional.