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'''Ruth Barnett''' was an abortionist operating in [[Portland, Oregon]] from 1918 to 1968. She was born in Hood River, Oregon, in 1895, and died in December 1969 of [[melanoma]].<ref name="ucp">[https://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6762.html Rickie Solinger, ''The Abortionist: A Woman against the Law'', University of California Press, publisher's synopsis]</ref>

'''Ruth Barnett''' was an abortionist operating in [[Portland|Portland, Oregon]] from 1918 to 1968. She was born in Hood River, Oregon, in 1895, and died in December 1969 of [[melanoma]].<ref name="ucp">[https://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6762.html Rickie Solinger, ''The Abortionist: A Woman against the Law'', University of California Press, publisher's synopsis]</ref>

Barnett went by the nickname "Dr. Ruth", and because she was a trained [[naturopath]], she was legally entitled to use the title, "doctor".<ref name="la1">[http://www.lifeadvocate.org/arc/barnett.htm Kerry Donaghue and Cathy Ramey, "Getting Away With Murder -- Ruth Barnett and the Illegal Abortion Trade -- Part I", ''Life Advocate'', 1997]</ref> Since her clinic advertised that it treated only "diseases of women", the fact that all her patients were female was not in itself enough to draw undue attention.<ref name="la1"/> She performed an estimated 40,000 abortions and claimed no maternal deaths.<ref name="ucp"/>

Barnett went by the nickname "Dr. Ruth", and because she was a trained [[naturopath]], she was legally entitled to use the title, "doctor".<ref name="la1">[http://www.lifeadvocate.org/arc/barnett.htm Kerry Donaghue and Cathy Ramey, "Getting Away With Murder -- Ruth Barnett and the Illegal Abortion Trade -- Part I", ''Life Advocate'', 1997]</ref> Since her clinic advertised that it treated only "diseases of women", the fact that all her patients were female was not in itself enough to draw undue attention.<ref name="la1"/> She performed an estimated 40,000 abortions and claimed no maternal deaths.<ref name="ucp"/>