Transcending Borders: Abortion in the Past and Present is a multidisciplinary investigation about how abortion and reproductive practices differ across time, space, geography, national boundaries, and cultures. In particular, the articles in this collection draw on integrative and intersectional approaches that attend to the vast differences and challenges faced by women who occupy multiple, overlapping, and often conflicting categories of identity. This collection works to complicate the many histories and ongoing politics of abortion by situating them within the broader conditions in which women have been forced to make decisions about whether or not to terminate a pregnancy. The authors in this collection specialize in the reproductive politics of Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, France, “German East Africa,” Ireland, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, the United States, and Zanzibar, with historical focuses on the pre-modern era, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and contemporary conditions