Mohr takes a good look at abortion in his book Abortion in America. He takes us back in history to the 1800s so we can understand how the practice and legalization of abortion has changed over the year. ... 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 ...

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Mohr takes a good look at abortion in his book Abortion in America. He takes us back in history to the 1800s so we can understand how the practice and legalization of abortion has changed over the year. ... 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 ...

• Word Count: 4259
• Approx Pages: 17
• 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). ... The major increase in abortion in the U.S. start in the early 1840's three key changes began to take place in the patterns of abortion in the United S...

• Word Count: 3983
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate