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The Rise of the Hospital and the Rise of Abortion
For decades after Horatio's store and the AMA got those laws on the books, one continued to quietly seek out abortions in the private practices of doctors who disagreed with or simply worked outside of the laws. Those doctors rarely faced criminal charges unless a woman died. It wasn't until the middle of the 20th century that the horror stories of botched illegal abortions like Joan Lester's began skyrocketing.