Storer, in what can only be considered a really big swing to the fences, claimed that even thinking about having an abortion could kill you. “The thought of the crime,” he explained, “coming upon the mind at a time when the physical system is weak and prostrated is sufficient to occasion death.” As if the threat of death wasn’t absurd enough, Storer also wanted women to know that just thinking about it was “undoubtedly able, where not affecting life, to produce insanity.”
