Wednesday, October 28, 2026 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM EDT
Patricia Cline Cohen, UC Santa Barbara, and Aaron Tang, UC Davis Law School
Comment: Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University
This is a hybrid event.
From the 1820s to the 1860s, some two-thirds of the states passed laws criminalizing abortion in all stages of pregnancy. In what ways, if any, did those laws intersect with public behavior? We have assembled a database of newspaper accounts describing close to 500 abortion events which entered the legal systems of the states. Our findings reveal a very large disconnect between what legislatures decreed and what the public accepted and indeed allowed.
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