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Ever since Roe v. Wade was decided by the Supreme Court in 1973, it has been under threat of rollbacks and restrictions. The Hyde Amendment, enacted just four years after Roe, may be the most widely known example. Although many of us had been expecting the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court to overturn Roe, the Dobbs decision still came as quite a blow to the rights of anyone able to become pregnant. Limiting abortion access and reproductive care will have far-reaching implications for…
Accused shakedown artists face law, Sep 28, 1954. Gelatin silver print, CRIM_0066;
Brooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.
In 1954, sixteen years before abortion was decriminalized in New York, four extortionists made it their business to blackmail doctors believed to be performing the then illegal procedure. Two of them posed as cops. They were Bruno Makan, 35, of 185 Marine Avenue in Brooklyn; Robert Murphy, 30, of 61 Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn; Doris Aviron, 24, of 311 W. 178th Street in Manhattan;…