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Boston’s pro-life history: Storer on abortion ‘quacks’
Although the American Medical Association had been around since 1847, the first reference to abortion by the Association was the motion to…
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Horatio Robinson Storer’s journey west
We noted that Horatio Robinson Storer first contacted the American Medical Association in 1857 and that his request for creation of an…
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Boston’s pro-life history: Storer pushes for unborn protections
Earlier blog entries — Read Part I here and Part II here — showed that abortion was frequent in Boston in the 1850s and…
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Boston’s rich history in the pro-life movement
Thank you NewBostonPost for inviting me to provide a series of entries on important historical events that had their origin in Boston.…
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A 19th-century Boston physician’s efforts to reduce abortions
This is a continued series of blog entries on important historical events that began in Boston and led to strict laws against…
