abolitionist

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Because she was so sensationalized in the popular press, Restell became the figure on which fictional accounts of female abortionists were based.

From Salon • Jul. 9, 2022

In assailing female abortionists and the newspapers that accepted abortion advertising, the sporting papers represented themselves as moral leaders.

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2022

Take, for example, the Jane Collective, an underground network of amateur female abortionists that launched in Chicago in 1965: to avoid being identified, “The Janes”, as they dubbed themselves, often blindfolded their patients.

From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2019

While vengeful lovers, demented blackmailers and unscrupulous abortionists may represent universal types, the Yiddish press also gleefully reported on specifically Jewish affairs — like the pitched battles between Jewish freethinkers and so-called Sabbath enforcers.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2017

The block above the Cathedral is occupied by the Male Orphan Asylum of the same church, next door to which is the mansion of Madame Restelle, one of the most noted abortionists of New York. 

From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney