Abortion bans do NOT end abortion, they force women into the back alleys...

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6. Agree

Anecdotally, I had to take a few non-engineering courses in school so I wound up in a physical anthropology class. Monkeys and stuff. The professor wasn’t interested in that so told us to read the book and spent the rest of class time telling us stories.

One of the things he said was when you could talk to women you could learn about their culture’s “abortion recipes” as he put it.

Less anecdotally here’s an abstract I found still on the nih website that confirms what you are saying.

Abortion is a universal phenomenon, occurring throughout recorded history and at all levels of societal organization. Techniques are highly varied, as are the circumstances under which it is practised.

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Attention is directed to preindustrial and transitional societies to illustrate the great variety of techniques and conditions under which abortion is practiced. The discussion covers changes in abortion status and attitudes through time as well as past and current attitudes in the US. Abortion traditionally has been performed under 2 primary sets of circumstances: the mother (or couple) does not want the pregnancy; or, for a variety of reasons, the pregnancy is deemed unacceptable by the given society, extended family, or a specific family member, usually the husband.

The paper is from 1986. I can’t find the full paper

[link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/3519038/|]