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Boston’s pro-life history: Storer on abortion ‘quacks’

Boston’s pro-life history: Storer on abortion ‘quacks’

Frederick N. Dyer

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 Horatio Robinson Storer in a March 1857 letter to John Berrien Lindsley M.D. of Nashville one of the founders of the Association.

We earlier discussed John Preston Leonard, M.D. of Greenville, Rhode Island who published "Quackery and Abortion" in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal in January 1851. We noted and copied his discussion of the high frequency of abortion. In the article he also regretted that the American Medical Association had not acted against abortion:

Boston Ballet inspires awe with an elegant Swan Lake
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Boston Ballet inspires awe with an elegant Swan Lake

Mary Hierholzer

When Boston Ballet premiered Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen's Swan Lake in 2014, it was clear that this ballet would soon become special in the hearts of its audiences. With stunning moments that inspire gasps of awe without fail, Nissinen's Swan Lake once again proves truly extraordinary. The company will perform the ballet through May 26.

In Boston's two-year-old production, Nissinen reinvents the classic Swan Lake story and iconic Pytor Ilych Tchaikovsky score with a fresh take on the ballet, highlighted by tasteful artistic design and inventive choreography. Boston's dancers bring this vision of Swan Lake to life with elegance and expertise.

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