Abortion wasn't a scandal until the 1830s. The lad mags of the day made it one.
In 1830s New York City, young white middle-class men and their working-class counterparts shared a culture focused on male pleasure. Male “sporting” culture included boxing rings, cockfights, gambling, blackface minstrel shows, brothels, and theater—often enjoyed with a drunken crowd. The sporting press—weekly papers such as the Sunday Flash, the Libertine, and the New York Sporting Whip—were the lad mags of the day.
has observed. Breaches of normative heterosexuality, particularly in the form of abortion and homosexuality, produced “outrage” in the men’s press. In the 1840s, in this media environment, several men’s papers went after female abortionists who had begun advertising their skills and pills in competing American newspapers .
Especially visible was Madame Restell, a popular abortion provider among married and unmarried women, including upper-class ladies in New York City, who broadcast her success by living in a mansion and driving through town in a fancy carriage. The National Police Gazette, a paper dedicated to publishing police reports and criminal trials verbatim—especially stories of sex crimes—targeted Restell as one of the city’s “murderous abortionists,” naming her the head of a “bloody empire.
The sporting press had publicized abortion and stigmatized it. Nonetheless, women continued to restore their menses with home treatments and induced early abortions before quickening as permitted by common law. It wasn’t until a decade after the Police Gazette’s villainization of Madame Restell that a young elite doctor and Harvard grad, Horatio R. Storer, took up the cudgel against abortion and recruited to his cause a small group of fellow elite doctors in the newly formed AMA.
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