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Old 05-31-2008, 10:40 AM   #89 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Zack View Post
I suppose you consider "early America" to mean the 1870's thru 1900?

Midwives likely played a much larger role in providing women with abortions and forms of contraception prior to the mid-1800's than men primarily because medicine, during that period, was an unregulated and unlicensed industry. And, this situation changed in the mid-1800's because the then-new AMA pushed for legislation that effectively eliminated the legal means with which women could practice medicine since they were not allowed to attend the male-only schools from which medicine could be learned.
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