Abortion in New York
She had branches in several other cities, including Boston and Philadelphia, and employed traveling agents working for the company that sold her "Female Monthly Pills".
[5][6] A group of science, health, and medical experts met in 1955 in New York; their purpose was to discuss abortion in the United States.
[7] In the 1940s and 1950s, abortions would be given to some women on mental health waivers at Mount Sinai if they indicated they had attempted to commit suicide as a result of the pregnancy.
[11] New York was the first state to create a therapeutic exemption that allowed women to have abortions if their life was at risk by continuing the pregnancy.
[4] Susannah Lattin's death led to an investigation that resulted in regulating maternity clinics and adoptions in New York City in 1868.
[23] In 2019, New York passed the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), which repealed a pre-Roe provision that banned third-trimester abortions, except in cases where the continuation of the pregnancy endangered a pregnant woman's life.
[28][29][30] In November 2024, New York voters passed a referendum to amend the state constitution to protect the right to abortion.
[35] The US Supreme Court's decision in 1973's Roe v. Wade ruling meant the state could no longer regulate abortion in the first trimester.
The Court's upholding the fixed buffer was the most important aspect of the ruling, because it was a common feature of injunctions nationwide.
[50] State abortion estimates differ depending on the data source (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) versus the Guttmacher Institute).
While the friends were gone, the boyfriend performed an illegal abortion on his girlfriend, leaving blood on the floor and kitchen table.
These dying women often gave evidence to the police about the procedures in order to prosecute people performing illegal abortions.
[40] In the 1960s, a woman named Mason attending Ohio State visited a Planned Parenthood clinic to seek information on getting an abortion.
At the time, the Ohio-based clinic was providing information on birth control and offering reproductive health care.
With help from her boyfriend and her best friend, she worked covertly to raise the money for the procedure; she stole glass bottles from a neighbor, so she could turn them in for US$0.05 a piece to fund her abortion.
[64] Then 18-year-old Connecticut resident Vikki Wachtel traveled to New York City to obtain an abortion at Bellevue Hospital in October 1970, where she had post-abortion complications.
She made the decision with her wife, Cynthia Nixon, after doctors told the couple that the fetus Marinoni was carrying was not viable.
[67] Susannah Lattin was an American woman who died of a postpartum infection at an illegal maternity clinic at 6 Amity Place in New York City, operated by Henry Dyer Grindle.
[68] Lattin became pregnant by George C. Houghton, a clerk at Whitehouse's boot and shoe store on Fulton Street, Brooklyn.
Powell pretended to be her husband and arranged for her, as "Mrs Smith", to see Dr Henry D. Grindle, who ran an unauthorized "lying-in" hospital that allowed the pregnant woman to have their children and have them illegally adopted.
The medical student who attended to her realized Lattin was in serious condition and was not likely to survive, and he persuaded her to tell him her real name, so he could notify her family.
[13] In 1990, John O'Connor, archbishop of New York, suggested that, by supporting abortion rights, Catholic politicians risked excommunication.
But it has to be clear that we are elected officials, and we uphold the law, and we support public positions separate, and apart, from our Catholic faith.
"[69] Café Altro Paradiso in New York City held a fund-raiser for Planned Parenthood on May 19, 2019, to support the organization's abortion services.
Women wanted to protest this activity, as other state legislatures started to consider similar bans as part of a move to try to overturn Roe v. Wade.
[79] On September 28, 2024, a rally and vigil for Amber Thurman and Candi Miller was held in Washington Square Park in Manhattan.
[81] In 1873, Anthony Comstock created the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, an institution dedicated to supervising the morality of the public.
It also prohibited producing or publishing information pertaining to the procurement of abortion, or the prevention of conception or venereal disease, even to medical students.
[47] Dr. David Gandell of Rochester, New York, sustained serious injuries on October 28, 1997, after being targeted by a sniper firing through a window in his home.
His was the last in a series of similar shootings against providers in Canada and northern New York state which were all likely committed by James Kopp.
