American Medical Association Resolution 1859:
“Resolved, that while physicians have long been united in condemning the act of producing abortion, at every period of gestation, except as necessary for preserving the life of either mother or child, it has become the duty of this Association in view of the prevalence and increasing frequency of the crime, publicly to enter an earnest and solemn protest against such unwarrantable destruction of human life.
Resolved, that in pursuance of the grand and noble calling we profess, the saving of human lives, and the sacred responsibilities thereby devolving upon us, the Association present the subject to the attention of the several legislative assemblies of the Union, with the prayer that the laws by which the crime of procuring abortion is attempted to be controlled may be revised, and that such other action may be taken in the premises as they in their wisdom may deem necessary.
Resolved, that the Association request the zealous cooperation of the various State Medical Societies in pressing the subject upon her legislators of the respective states.”
Quoted in:
Dyer, Frederick “Horatio Robinson Storer, M.D. and the Physicians Crusade against Abortion” Life and Learning IX, 1998
Most people do not know that it was doctors, rather than feminists or laymen activists who opposed legal abortion and fought to protect unborn children in the 1800s. These doctors knew that life began at conception. At this time, also, most feminists such as Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed abortion as well.
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