Abortion history: 19th century men’s sporting press and AMA made it a crime.

Abortion was not always a secret or a crime. But many Americans tend to assume that it was nearly nonexistent or always considered a sin until "the sexual revolution" of the 1960s (or even the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision). The historical record shows clearly that early abortion—known as "restoring the menses," a woman's period—was a normal practice among women in colonial America and well into the 19th century...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/06/abortion-1830s-history-sporting-press.html