Abortion Under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Women's Reproductive Rights in South AfricaAbortion Under Apartheid examines the politics of abortion in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948 1990), when termination of pregnancy was criminalized. It analyzes the flourishing clandestine abortion industry, the prosecution of medical and backstreet abortionists, and the passage in 1975 of the country's first statutory law on abortion. Susanne M. Klausen reveals how ideas about sexuality were fundamental to apartheid culture and shows that