“Abortion in Mexico is incredibly well researched and provides an alternative to the widely held view that Mexicans always opposed abortion and a person’s control of their reproductive capacities. It is an important corrective to these views, but it is also the first book to comprehensively study abortion and infanticide in Mexico. With deftness of analysis, Jaffary takes us through the early permissive era in the colonial period and shows how slowly Mexicans joined in a condemnatory discourse around this topic. This is a tour de force.”—Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, author of The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico
“Abortion in Mexico is a well-written and engaging book and is a significant contribution to legal history, women’s and gender history, and the history of sexuality.”—Nichole Sanders, author of Gender and Welfare in Mexico: The Consolidation of a Postrevolutionary State