From Back Alley to the BorderIn From Back Alley to the Border, Alicia Gutierrez Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers played in exposing and exploiting the faults in Californias anti abortion statute throughout the twentieth century. Focused on the patients who used this underground network and the physicians who facilitated it, Gutierrez Romine provides insight into the world of illegal abortion from the 1920s through the