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

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

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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 w

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 w…