Mohr takes a good look at abortion in his book Abortion in America. ... Cases reported in the medical journals prior to 1840 concern the same percentages (16,17). ... Again, the context was spontaneous by the then induced abortion, but in a book with such explicit suggestions for relieving the common cold, woman could easily conclude that the health risks involved in bringing on an abortion were relatively low, or at least not much worse than childbirth itself in 1808, when Jennings wrote in his book (18). ... Third, the types of woman having recourse to abortion seem to change; the dramatic s...

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Mohr takes a good look at abortion in his book Abortion in America. ... Cases reported in the medical journals prior to 1840 concern the same percentages (16,17). ... Again, the context was spontaneous by the then induced abortion, but in a book with such explicit suggestions for relieving the common cold, woman could easily conclude that the health risks involved in bringing on an abortion were relatively low, or at least not much worse than childbirth itself in 1808, when Jennings wrote in his book (18). ... Third, the types of woman having recourse to abortion seem to change; the dramatic s...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Cases reported in the medical journals prior to 1840 concern the same percentages (16, 17). ... Again, the context was spontaneous by the then induced abortion, but in a book with such explicit suggestions for relieving the common cold, woman could easily conclude that the health risks involved in bringing on an abortion were relatively low, or at least not much worse than childbirth itself in 1808, when Jennings wrote in his book (18). ... Third, the types of woman having recourse to abortion seem to change; the dramatic surge of abortion in the U.S. after 1840 was attributed not to the incre...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate