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

By Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University

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,

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