There is a remnant sticker mark on the title page and the front cover is rubbed at the edges, else the book appears to have never been opened. On the front cover: "Abortion in America: originally published as "Therapeutic Abortion" medical, psychiatric, legal, anthropological, and religious considerations in the prevention of conception and the interruption of pregnancy" Published in 1967, there is one woman contributor out of 22 essay . "Current abortion practices in the United States are incompatible with present abortion laws. Because of this physicians are forced to make medical decisions on moral and socioeconomic grounds; as a result they are in a very untenable and essentially hypocritical position. Dr. Rosen discusses the medical, psychiatric, and socioeconomic indications involved in therapeutic abortion as well as the ramifications of criminal abortion. He suggests that higher standards of sexual conduct through education, establishment of consultation centers, extension of facilities providing advice on contraception, and a liberalization of present statutes may offer a partial solution; but he theorizes that the only true solution is to abolish criminal abortion laws and give women the right to decide whether or not they wish to carry a specific pregnancy to term. Dr. Rosen, however, recognizes that present attitudes will not allow this today but concludes that adoption of the Model Penal Code provisions on abortion - with the exception of subsection 3 which he terms an anachronism, inconsistent with present standards of medical practice - will reduce the hypocrisy of the present medical and legal approach to the problem." (Symposium discussion 1965 - will there be another in 2025? )