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Saint Louis, Mo., 61
Sanger, Margaret, 36 , 141 , 229 ;
letters to, 37 , 38 , 40 , 41 , 132
Schmid, Calvin, 274 n111
Scholtes, Mrs., 74 .
Schrecker, Ellen, 319 n60
Schultz-Knighten, Dr. Anna B., 300 nn21-22
Scott, Joan Wallach, 262 n2l
Search and seizure, illegal, 166 , 248
Septic abortion wards, 138 , 210 , 214 , 239 , 307 n29;
closure of, 246 ;
reopening of, 249
Septic infection: among poor women, 134 ;
in legal abortion, 284 n110;
physician-induced, 79 , 265 n46, 285 n113;
women's knowledge of, 27
"The Service" (abortion provider). See "Jane"
Settlement houses, 107
Sexism: in abortion system, 194 ;
of men, 228 , 231 , 232 , 334 n50;
in present-day antiabortion movement, 249
Sex trade, British, 50
Sexual harassment, by abortionists, 199 , 200 , 225
Sexual immorality: in abortion raid cases, 167 ;
in anti-midwife campaign, 92 ;
male, 59
Sexuality: history of, 297 n2;
Victorian view of, 292 n78. See also Freedom, sexual; Heterosexual relations
Sexuality, female: autonomy in, 253 ;
in birth control movement, 36 , 229 ;
as dangerous to women, 108 ;
feminist thought on, 270 n59;
maternity in, 163 ;
reformers' views on, 100 ;
in second wave feminism, 228 -29;
social concern over, 91 , 92 , 108 ;
Sexuality, male: immorality in, 59 ;
Sexual norms: in abortion reform movements, 221 ;
in antiabortion campaigns, 12 ;
deviation from, 163 ;
psychiatrists' views on, 331 n20;
state regulation of, 115 , 130 -31;
violation of, 5
Shame, 36 , 125 , 126 -28, 230 ;
in regulation of reproductive behavior, 5 , 28 , 36 , 171 , 200 , 230
Shaver, Clarence, 104
newspaper coverage of, 104 ;
office of, plate 5;
trial of, 107
Shelton, Dr. William E., 313 n113
Sheppard-Towner Act, 81 , 110 , 172 ;
abolition of, 111 ;
and attacks on midwifery, 291 n111
Shorter, Edward, 284 n111
Silence: in McCarthy era, 192 ;
as metaphor for subordination, 20 , 21 , 266 nn4, 5
Silva, Dr., 56
Simon, Kate, 68
Slaves, abortifacients of, 9
Slippery elm, 45 , 44 , 274 nn106, 111
Sloane Hospital (New York), 205 , 207
Socialist movements: and birth control, 141 ;
and legal abortion, 142 , 218 , 233 . See also Left, political
Socialized medicine, 172
Society for Humane Abortion (SHA, California), 223 , 224 , 227 ;
male support of, 331 n22;
newsletter of, 257 ;
underground arm of, 224
South, midwives in, 296 n117
South Carolina, 331 n15
South Dakota, 336 n70
Soviet Union, 139 , 140 , 141 , 172 , 180 , 285 n114, 308 n42
"Speaking," liberatory aspects of, 20 , 21 , 266 nn4, 5
Speak-outs, 20 , 229 -30, 333 n40
Specialists, 285 n1;
antiabortion campaigns of, 15 ;
in coroners' inquests, 88 ;
in history of abortion, 4 ;
physician-abortionists as, 147 , 159 , 310 n66;
on use of curette, 285 n113. See also Gynecologists; Obstetricians
Speculums, 75
Spencer, Dr. Robert Douglas, 310 n70
Springer, Dr., 300 n21
Squier, Dr. Raymond, 322 n85
Stackable, Dr. W. H., 104 , 105
Stahl, Dr. Frank A., 42
Stanko, Helen, 168 ;
trials of, 169 -70, 171 , 318 n44.
Stanley, Dr., 56
State: cooperation of hospitals with, 4 , 121 , 123 -24, 162 , 173 -74, 190 , 226 , 303 n52;
enforcement of abortion law, 1 , 81 , 107 , 114 -31, 299 n17;
enforcement of childbearing, 340 n13;
intervention in marriage, 115 , 129 -31;
medical profession's cooperation with, 3 , 81 , 88 -90, 115 -16, 120 -25, 131 , 226 , 249 , 260 n5;
surveillance of abortion, 163 , 173 , 249 ;
surveillance of health care, 249
States: abortion laws of, 64 , 252 , 261 n13, 265 n45;
abortion reform in, 331 n15;
test cases in, 335 n67, 336 n70
State v. Martin , 166
Stead, W. T., 49 -50
Sterilization, 320 n66;
coercive, 207 , 208 , 232 , 324 n116, 333 n42;
for eugenic reasons, 328 n50;
of low-income patients, 207 , 231 ;
medical grounds for, 329 n54;
during therapeutic abortion, 328 n51;
therapeutic abortion committees' oversight of, 177
Stevens, Rosemary, 313 n106
Stevenson, Dr. Sarah Hackett, 58 , 290 n52;
in anti-midwife campaign, 93 -94
Stix, Dr. Regine K., 23
Storer, Dr. Horatio R, 20 , 82 ;
on quickening, 11 -12
Storer, Dr. Humphreys, 82
Stowe, Dr. Herbert M., 96 , 291 n61
Students, in abortion rights movement, 225 . See also Medical students
Styskal, Cecilia, 75
Suicide: in People v. Martin , 167 ;
in therapeutic abortion decisions, 201 -2, 241 ;
of unmarried women, 185
Sulfonamides, 319 n5
Supreme Court. See U.S. Supreme Court
Sweden, 224