"QUESTION: Well, my historical impression is that following the Civil War Congress went through the procedure, at any rate, of readmitting the States which had seceded and passing on their constitutional provisions and that sort of thing. Did Texas have an abortion statute at that time? MR. FLOWERS: Yes, sir. It was passed in 1854, Your Honor. QUESTION: Do you know as a matter of historical fact when most of these abortion statutes came on the books? MR. FLOWERS: I think it was, most of them were in the mid-1800’s, Your Honor. QUESTION: In fact, the latter half of the Nineteenth Century? MR. FLOWERS: Yes, sir. QUESTION: Do you know why they all came on at that time? MR. FLOWERS: No, sir, I surely don’t. Question: So that the materials indicate that, during that period, they were enacted to protect the health and lives of pregnant women, because of the danger of operative procedures generally around that time? MR. FLOWERS: I’m sure that was a great factor, Your Honor. QUESTION: Well, isn’t it historically pretty well accepted as a fact that in the early period of the history of this country there was general reliance upon religious disciplines to preclude this kind of activity, abortions, and when that didn’t seem to cover it, then the States began to enact the statutes? MR. FLOWERS: Yes, sir. QUESTION: As had been done in England. MR. FLOWERS: Also in the exploration and the Indian days, if you wish, frontier days, I don’t imagine that too many abortions, intentional abortions were created in this, these United States. People were of such a necessity to develop the United States."