Dr. Ira T. Richmond was arrested. Richmond had come to Lockport a year earlier and opened a sanitarium, "which died for want of patronage."
Lizzie's abortion was typical of pre-legalization abortions in that it was attributed to a physician.
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For more on pre-legalization abortion, see The Bad Old Days of Abortion
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