RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, facing a Monday ultimatum from President Barack Obama's Justice Department over enforcing a law requiring citizens to use bathrooms and changing rooms that correspond with their biological sex, responded by suing the department.
Later that afternoon, the Justice Department punched back, filing a lawsuit that aims to make good on a threat to halt the flow of federal aid to the Tar Heel State if McCrory refuses to reverse course on its so-called bathroom bill law. A similar measure is pending in the Massachusetts Legislature, and fights over such laws in multiple states have pushed the issue into the national spotlight.
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:
