Frederick N. Dyer

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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 create a "Committee on Criminal Abortion with a view to its general suppression" at the May 1857 Annual Meeting in Nashville. This had been requested by

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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 American Medical Association Committee on Criminal Abortion was granted at the Annual Meeting of the Association in Nashville in May of that year. He was made Chairman of

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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 discussed three physicians who were strongly and vocally opposed, John Preston Leonard, David Humphreys Storer, and his son, Horatio Robinson Storer. More on Boston's abortion problem

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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. This blog on Boston's and the nation's first pro-life movement will interest Boston and New England readers for several reasons. One is that the

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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 abortion throughout the U.S. (Read Part I here) Most of these laws remained until overturned by the Supreme Court's in 1973. For a century they