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 in the future, but today we will provide some background on Dr. Horatio Robinson Storer, who would become the key figure in the "physicians' crusade against abortion" that led to the passage of st
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 in the future, but today we will provide some background on Dr. Horatio Robinson Storer, who would become the key figure in the "physicians' crusade against abortion" that led to the passage of st…
