In "Abortion Wars, the First Time Around," Kate Manning reports on the suicide in 1878 of Ann Lohman, an abortion provider persecuted and jailed for months without bail for helping women end pregnancies for forty years.
See the op-ed pages of today's New York Times, or go to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/opinion/06manning.html?scp=2&sq=kate%20manning&st=cse
Lohman lived in New York City and was finally trapped and arrested by a religious crusader, Anthony Comstock.
Sound familiar?
Facing years in prison at age 66, she chose to slit her own throat in a bathtub.
Today's providers are not driven to suicide--the choice to continue to live is taken from them by gunfire.
Manning is writing a novel based on the life of Ann Lohman.
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