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The Rise and Fall of the Anti-Contraception Movement
Horatio Storrs and the AMA's campaign against abortion, aided by Anthony Comstock's anti-contraception campaign was a success. Although not all doctors agreed with or followed the new laws, midwives and entrepreneurs like madam, restell were still sidelined as male gynecologist and obstetricians took over. In 1878, he rang her doorbell on East 52nd Street pretending that he was a married man seeking an abortion for his wife who already had too many children and wasn't in good enough health to birth another. She told him some pills and he was on his way. But the next day, Comstock returned with a police officer who arrested restell.