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Illegitimacy: in ALI model law, 221 ;
comparison by race, 136 , 137 ;
prosecution in, 129 -30;
stigma of, 27 -28
Illinois: abortion law reform in, 235 -40;
abortion laws of, 61 , 107 , 261 n13, 265 n45;
Bar Association, 222 ;
Medical Practice Act, 107 , 116 ;
State Medical Society, 72 ;
state's attorney, 242 -43, 317 n28;
therapeutic abortion in, 13 . See also Chicago; Cook County; "Jane"
Illinois Board of Health: in antiabortion debate, 106 ;
Chicago Times on, 50 ;
physicians' cooperation with, 88 ;
regulation of midwives, 97 , 98
Illinois Supreme Court: abortion rulings of, 61 , 244 ;
appeals to, 255 -56;
on dying declarations, 116 , 297 n6;
overturn of People v. Martin , 166 ;
on therapeutic abortion, 242 -43. See also Doe v. Scott
Immigrants: abortions for, 68 ;
in antiabortion campaigns, 13 ;
to Chicago, 17 ;
in Chicago Times , 50 ;
in coroners' inquests, 119 ;
and criminalization of abortion, 11 ;
midwives among, 73 , 81 , 91 -92, 147 ;
neighborhoods of, 31 , 270 n48;
physicians among, 139 ;
preferences in childbearing, 73 , 283 nn96-97;
sense of community among, 31 ;
Immigrants' Protection League, 100
Incest, abortion following, 220 -21, 251
Indiana, 149
Infant health, national policy on, 110 , 111
Infanticide: abortion as, 13 , 85 ;
in Chicago Times exposé, 50 -51
Infant mortality, 250 ;
African American, 213
Inquests, coroners', 22 , 31 , 45 , 114 , 256 , 299 n18;
husbands in, 129 ;
interrogation in, 126 -29, 131 , 182 ;
legal purpose of, 119 ;
physicians' cooperation in, 120 -25, 131 ;
specialists' testimony in, 88 ;
unmarried men in, 115 , 128 -30;
unmarried women in, 128 -30. See also Cook County coroner; Dying declarations
Insurance: for abortion, 134 , 340 n20;
national health, 172 , 295 n111
Irregulars (medical providers), 11 , 48 ;
of Chicago, 57 , 276 n29, 282 n92;
practice of abortion, 263 n32