About the Episode
Dr. Kline was a respected physician in Lancaster, Pennsylvania around 1900. At the same time, he also worked for the brothels in town, as other doctors did. He provided abortions for sex workers and other Lancaster women. Listen to found out how he ended up in the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia.
Resource List
Farrell Brodie, Janet. Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America. Cornell University Press, 1994.
Reagan, Leslie. When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and the Law in the United States, 1867-1973. University of California Press, 1996.
The Lancaster City and County Medical Society Records, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Credits
Written by M. Alison Kibler and Tatyana Ulman.
Narrated by Tatyana Ulman. Additional voices by Anna Chiaradonna, Ainsley McClure, and Vincent Smaldone.
We thank the staff of LancasterHistory for their assistance with the Law and Order Society Papers and the Lancaster City and County Medical Society records.
We are grateful for the financial support from Franklin & Marshall College.
Sound engineering by Vincent Smaldone and the Institute of the Mechanical Surround.
