Word: abortaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evidence gained Dr. Wilson an acquittal. His associate, a skillful amateur named Paul de Gaston, was fined $100 & costs for practicing medicine without a license. Notwithstanding the insignificant disposition of these cases, they brought to light enough evidence to expose an amazingly widespread and efficient chain of Pacific Coast abortaria extending from Seattle to San Diego, to cause California to indict five doctors, a businessman, eight lesser associates. Last week the 14 were on trial in Los Angeles...
...Prosecutor Vernon Ferguson of Los Angeles, assisted by Prosecutor John J. McMahon of San Francisco, set forth the charges on which he expected to send the defendants to jail. Two years ago, cried Prosecutor Ferguson, Reginald L. Rankin, a onetime Washington lumberman, conceived the idea of a great businesslike abortaria chain to accommodate the thousands of California, Oregon and Washington women who wished to avoid the logical result of conception. First step was to make a deal with a skilled operator, Dr. George Eliot Watts of Los Angeles, graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School in 1895. In California...
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