ciated with normal gestation as quickening. Quickening was the first perception of fetal movement by the pregnant woman herself. Quickening generally occurred during the mid-point of gestation, late in the fourth or early in the fifth month, though it woul

ense many marginal practitioners began in the early 1840's to try and attract patients by advertising in popular press their willingness to treat the private ailments of woman in terms that everybody recognized as significantly their willing to provide abortion services (47). During the 1840's Americans also learned for the first time not only that many practitioners would provide abortion services, but that some practitioners had made the abortion business their chief livelihood indeed, abortion became one of the first specialties in American medical history. The popular press began to make abortion more visible to the American people during the 1840's not only in its advertisements, but also in its coverage of a number of sensational trials alleged to involve botched abortions and professional abortionists (47). One indication that abortion rates probably jumped in the United States during the 1940's and remained high for some 30 years thereafter was the increased visibility!

d and still does vary a good deal from one woman to another (pg.3). The common law did not formally recognize the existence of a fetus in criminal cases until it had quickened. After quickening, the expulsion and destruction of the fetus without due case was considered a crime, because the fetus itself had manifested some semi-balance of a separate existence: the ability to move (pg3). The even more controversial question: Is the fetus alive? Has been at the forefront of the debate. Medically, the procedure of removing a blockage was the same as those for inducing an early abortion. Not until the obstruction moved would either a physician or a woman regardless of their suspicions be completely certain that it was a "natural" !

hings stirred up wherever he was, "sensed that his elders were growing restive about abortion and that the time was right for a professionally ambitious leaders to take advantage of the still unfocused opposition of regular physicians to abortion. Horatio Storer laid the groundwork for the anti-abortion campaign he launched later in the year by writing influential physicians all around the country early in 1857 and inquiring about the abortion laws in each of their states (148-149). Reactions around the country continued to bode well for the success of Storer's national project. Still another prominent professor of obstetrics, Dr. Jesse Boring of the Atlanta Medical School, who was at the AMA meeting in 1857, when Storer called for action, came out publicly against the " prevalent laxity of moral sentiment of this subject, as evidenced by the increasing frequency of induced abortions"(155). Between 1860 and 1880 physicians all around the nation worked hard at the job of "educa!

ting up" the public attitude toward abortion in the U.S., and by the end of that period they had made some significant progress (171). Public opinion is turned to make abortion illegal the popular press and church had joined with the leaders of the charge the physicians. Mohr continues to state that the anti-obscenity movement rose to prominence during the 1870sunder the leadership of Anthony Comstock, the well-known head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. In the 1873 Comstock persuaded Congress to pass " and Act for the Suppression of Trade in and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use. " As a result of that law, it became a federal offense to ...sell, or offer to sell, or...give away for offer to give away, or ...have in...possession with intent to sell or give away,...instrument, or other article of indecent or immoral nature, or any article or medicine...for causing abortion, except on a prescription of a physician in good standing, given in g!

Itself Abortion in American Mind. New York: Random House,1992. Unnamed Interview. A women who experienced abortion first hand.

igious morality forbade his approving of abortion in any situation, but even in this he was willing to accept his role as an American

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