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

  • Written by Calvin Schermerhorn, Professor of History, Arizona State University
imageA 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...

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