Julia Fortmeyer was a 19th-century abortionst from St. Louis, Missouri, who was convicted of manslaughter in 1875 and sentenced to five years in prison. A contemporary article reported that "without a shadow of a blush or a remnant of feeling, [she] calmly stated that she had burned the bodies of more than a hundred babies." In 1899 a St Louis newspaper compared Fortmeyer to another abortionist who had been arrested under similar circumstances, Henrietta Bamberger, reporting that Fortmeyer had "killed infants and burned their bodies in a cook stove."