The Crime of the „Forced Abortion“ before the Regional Court in Olomouc in the Second Half of the Eighties and in the First Half of the Nineties of th
The Crime of the „Forced Abortion“ before the Regional Court in Olomouc in the Second Half of the Eighties and in the First Half of the Nineties of th

Summary/Abstract: In this article I go in for the second half of the eighties and the first half of the nineties of the nineteenth century. I focus on the characterics of women who committed (or attempted to commit) the crime of the “Forced Abortion”, but also on the characteristic of men who often urged their partners to get the “Forced Abortion” carried out and also of persons who performed the illegal abortions, whether they were physicians, midwifes or persons without medical education. The specific criminal cases of the Regional Court in Olomouc identify the causes of crime, methods of its implementation (mechanical or chemical means used), the way of decision making of the court on the mitigating and aggravating circumstances, guilt and punishment and also the attitude of the Prosecutor's Office in Olomouc and advocates towards the accused and the crime. In the end I present pertinent conclusions and I try to compare two periods - the second half of the eighties and the first half of the nineties of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century.

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