What an absurd distortion of history!
How many women died when those historical abortions were performed?
How many women were forced to undergo abortion in the past?
What contraceptives were available in the past?
Given the much larger family sizes back then, any extra child could be ruinous etc.
"Abortion laws have never been stricter in the U.S. Yet for the first century of the country’s existence—and most of human history before that—abortion was a relatively uncontroversial fact of life.
“Abortion has existed for pretty much as long as human beings have existed,” says Joanne Rosen, JD, MA, a senior lecturer in Health Policy and Management who studies the impact of law and policy on access to abortion.
Until the mid-19th century, the U.S. attitude toward abortion was much the same as it had often been elsewhere throughout history: It was a quiet reality, legal until “quickening” (when fetal motion could be felt by the mother). In the eyes of the law, the fetus wasn’t a “separate distinct entity until then,” but rather an extension of the mother, Rosen explains. ..."
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