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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"/> | ||
Latest revision as of 20:35, February 15, 2012
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.[1]
Barnett went by the nickname "Dr. Ruth", and because she was a trained naturopath, she was legally entitled to use the title, "doctor".[2] 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.[2] She performed an estimated 40,000 abortions and claimed no maternal deaths.[1]
Barnett co-authored an autobiography, They Weep on My Doorstep, in which she indicated that she performed abortions on as many as fifty women a day.[2]