Hundreds of Roe v. Wade supporters surround a small group of counterprotesters at the Arizona Capitol.The last person prosecuted for providing an abortion in Arizona was a chiropractor named J. Norman Wahlrab.
Without the protections of Roe v. Wade, abortion was — and may be yet again — a risky business for the women undergoing the procedure and the men and women who perform it. Abortion also was illegal in Mexico. At least two articles in Tucson newspapers from the 1960s detail University of Arizona students who were held briefly by Mexican authorities for attempting to obtain abortions.
"They find a back-alley setting and their lives by having abortions performed by the untrained, unclean and untrustworthy who operate outside the Arizona law," Green told the court.A leaked Supreme Court draft opinion suggests the court is preparing to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion.
Youngtown Dr. Charles Keever was prosecuted for two abortions he performed in 1967, including one in which a patient died. He was convicted twice for abortions, but appealed both cases successfully. The most prolific, or at least the one who bore the most prosecution attempts, was Dr. Nathaniel Hightower, who had a small office near 9th and Jefferson streets.
Dr. Hightower was acquitted in both of the 1950s cases when the prosecution could not prove the woman allegedly receiving the abortions were pregnant, follow-up articles in each case reported. The one that always stood out to him was about a young girl who showed up at his father's office,"frightened to death" that her family would"kill her or disown her" over her pregnancy, and claiming she was prepared to perform an abortion on herself with a coat hanger, he said. He emphasized the desperation of some of his grandfather's patients.
In the late 19th century, Phoenicians packed the Maricopa County courthouse every day for the trial of Dr. Scott Helm, a prominent Arizona physician. "She didn't do this for gain," Aboud said, a newspaper account says."She did it from pity for these women, and out of ignorance." Chessen's story, featured in the 1992 movie"A Private Matter," starring Sissy Spacek, shows harsh realities of a total abortion ban that some now want to bring back to Arizona. Faced with the likely prospect she would have a severely deformed baby because of her accidental use of thalidomide, Chessen had to leave the country for an abortion when local doctors were warned they'd face prosecution for helping her.
All tribes need to open womens health care facilities on their tribal lands.
The Rs in 2022 could be moved back to the dark ages and would fit right in without changing their non-existent party platform.
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