Horatio Robinson Storer, M.D. (1830-1922)Horatio Storer is an early American gynecologist. He is even better known for the "physicians' crusade against abortion" which he started and carried out with the assistance of the American Medical Association.
Most people today are surprised to learn that induced abortion was common among married Protestant women in the United States in the 1850s. The "physicians' crusade" led to the passage of laws in almost every state that protected the fetus from conception. These physicians, and the new abortion laws they worked to create, taught people that the fetus was alive prior to "quickening," the point in the pregnancy when movements of the fetus were first felt by the woman.
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