254:—remained in operation until 1957, when it was closed due to low occupancy and funding problems. From its start in 1886, just three years after Ripley's graduation, Maternity Hospital quickly grew to a twenty-room facility and functioned "to provide a lying-in hospital" both for married women without means of adequate care and for "girls who have previously borne a good character" but "have been led astray." In 1896, the hospital moved to the corner of Western and Penn Avenue North, where it solidified its reputation through the lowest maternal death rates in the region and became the first Minneapolis hospital to establish a social service department.
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Amongst other discriminatory issues, until 1891, the age of consent was ten years old. In one of the many letters written to a
Minneapolis editor, Ripley noted that the property of young girls was better protected by the state than their persons. Upon the adopting a law during the 26th Legislature of
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During her six-year tenure as president, she often spoke out about public health issues such as city sanitation, clean water, food adulteration, and crowding of patients in hospitals. Ripley also promoted more matrons on the police force and women's involvement on the city board. She became an early
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Like other women doctors of the time, Ripley found that most of her patients were women and young children who often had trouble accessing hospital care; for instance, no
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frontier, where she attended high school (leaving without a diploma). She was awarded a first-class teacher's certificate and taught elementary school for a time. In 1867 she married rancher
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Maternity Hospital in 1957, the hospital structure was sold, and the proceeds were used to create the Ripley Memorial Foundation. Since 1993, the foundation has focused on supporting programs that prevent teenage pregnancies. In 2007, the hospital building was converted into
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Minneapolis and became a successful obstetrician. She received her license to practice in 1883, making her one of the first two dozen licensed women doctors in the state. The same year, Ripley was elected president of the
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Minnesota in 1889 empowering fathers to deny rights to their unborn children, Ripley replied the bill to be "worthy of the Dark Ages". In the campaign of raising the
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