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The Physician's Crusade Against Abortion
In 1860, governors of every single state in the US received this letter from the recently established American Medical Association. Horatio Storr was actually the one who wrote it and introduced a few key arguments for why abortion should be illegal across the country. He campaigned on a moral argument that also tapped into racial fears of the moment. Those that would eventually inspire a pseudoscientific field of, quote, racial improvement and plan breeding of the population.