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Arizona’s 1864 abortion law was made in a women’s rights desert – here’s what life was like then

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A group of men and women, including two soldiers, on a porch in Fort Verde, Ariz., in 1886. Buyenlarge/Getty Images Dora Juhl, a 15-year-old teenager, walked into Dr. Rosa Goodrich Boido’s obstetrical practice in Phoenix in January 1918. Juhl wanted to end her pregnancy. But abortion was illegal in Arizona. Boido, the city’s sole female physician, asked Juhl for US$100 – about $2,000 today – to perform the abortion. Juhl said she could pay $27 …

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Arizona’s 1864 abortion law was made in a women’s rights desert – here’s what life was like then

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HeraldNet.com HeraldNet.com - Everett and Snohomish County news from The Daily Herald in Everett, Washington Its author was likely more concerned by the poisons women took than for the abortions themselves. Comment: Women’s health was focus of Arizona’s 1864 abortion law Wire Service

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