Oops! And it needs to be U.S. I've found Martha Ballard's Diary (http://dohistory.org/diary...) but she only mentions abortion once. - Jen

Many thanks, Jill!! - Jen

I'd go about this differntly: find secondary sources, then look to see what their primary sources were. So, articles in America History & Life, or JSTOR (also our catalog shows this book - "Abortion in America : the origins and evolutions of national policy, 1800-1900 / " which I'd expect to reference primary sources, perhaps from the time period you're looking at) - ellbeecee

Try sources in reference list from an article like this? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed... - maʀtha

I suggested the secondary source suggestion as well - this article was WMQ was awesome: Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village Cornelia Hughes Dayton The William and Mary Quarterly , Third Series, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Jan., 1991), pp. 19-49 Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable... - Jen

This search highlights how difficult it is to find digitized primary sources however - lots of great stuff out there, but buried deep. - Jen

A WorldCat search for "abortion* and 18th century" would also pull up books where the bibliography might be worth a look, like http://www.worldcat.org/title... - Amandadon't