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Abortion in the 19th-century US was widely accepted as a means of avoiding the risks of pregnancy. The idea of banning or punishing it came later. By Tamara Dean

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Two women standing in the doorway of a house, numbered 419, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1895. (Photo by Charles Van Schaick/Wisconsin Historical Society/Getty Images)
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