History of Abortion in the U.S.

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30. In 1880, abortions were septic and a lot of women were dying

even if they found doctors to do them. Abortion pills were a fond dream and the concoctions women resorted to in order to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy made them ill, often permanently, but did nothing to abort them. The subject was largely taboo and few people shared even effective means because everything to do with women and their bodies was taboo. Babies you didn't want, couldn't care for and couldn't afford to feed were directly from god, allowing men completely off the hook. Even today, a lot of them don't feel any responsibility toward protecting their partners.

The laws, of course, drove abortion totally underground, opening the door for former patent medicine hucksters to set up traveling practices, leaving a trail of maimed or dead women as they traveled around, no one willing to turn them in because they had offered the hope of ending unwanted pregnancy and maybe they'd get good at it if they made enough mistakes first.

Yes, that's how desperate women feel when their lives are threatened by unwanted pregnancies. This is what antiabortionist fools never seem to understand, that every area of a woman's life is being threatened and it is appalling. It needs to be voluntary.