The Trial of Abigail Goodman

by Howard Fast

Book Overview

Abigail Goodman, a forty-one-year-old college professor and mother of two grown children, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and, after much soul-searching, has an abortion, only to be arrested and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517595028
• ISBN13: 9780517595022
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Controversial and amazing

Written in 1993, this is the story of Professor Goodman, a 41 year old, married female with 2 grown children who finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. She opts, after much thought, to terminate the pregnancy, only to find herself arrested a month later and charged under a new law that retroactively makes abortion a capital offense. The book's cover says this could really happen which is impossible to believe but certainly may be possible. The outcome of the story is a surprize, but nothing like what I expected. The DA was a dummy, but her defense team, naturally, brilliant. The Judge should have been presiding over the OJ trial. Read it, it's very good.