Liberty as a Dirty Word

A Private Choice: Abortion in America in the Seventies By John T. Noonan Jr. Free Press, 244 pp., $11.95

Sacrificing your queen is an unusual way to open a chess game. Yet Professor Noonan does something of the sort in this book: he concedes that great American word Liberty to the opposition. And gets away with it, I’d say: before you finish this book, “liberty,” when it comes to abortion, is a dirty word.

JM

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J. P. McFadden

A Private Choice: Abortion in America in the Seventies By John T. Noonan Jr. Free Press, 244 pp., $11.95

Sacrificing your queen is an unusual way to open a chess game. Yet Professor Noonan does something of the sort in this book: he concedes that great American word Liberty to the opposition. And gets away with it, I’d say: before you finish this book, “liberty,” when it comes to abortion, is a dirty word.