Arizona’s 1864 Abortion Law was Made in a Women’s Rights Desert
www.counterpunch.org - 2024-05-01T05:22:32.000Z

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 More Read this story