I just keep thinking tansy from Angela's story was that intentional? I wonder. Also why my mom is staunchly pro-choice she knew girls that had to go the scary back alley route in high school pre-Roe
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Tansy was indeed in regular circulation! As was awful other stuff. But pennyroyal was also big. And yes, my mother has those stories too.
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i wonder if Angela knew that when she named her story
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Oh yes she did!
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Sometimes I wonder how more creative people's brains come up with stuff like that
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Have you read Jean Rhys' Voyage In The Dark? It has a first person account of an abortion in 1914 - it is based on Rhys's own experience of an abortion that year.
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There is something in here, toohttps://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/UsborneCultures …
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I recommend Dr Sandra McAvoy's research too - it focuses on Ireland and the UK. Many accounts from the same period.
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A dearly loved friend has used this experience by women of today as a reason to support overturning Roe v Wade. Women deserve the same right to privacy in medical decisions as men...period. That point needs to be drilled!
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Exactly. With no shame.
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I got no comeback when I said that to support a woman freedom of choice except that women aren’t informed about the procedure
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While Sanger opposed abortion herself, she would publish letters from women pleading for abortions, because at the time birth control was illegal. https://pictorial.jezebel.com/margaret-sanger-regularly-published-letters-from-women-1792476374/amp …
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Growing up, there was a photo of a young woman hanging in our foyer taken around 1900. She's a relative (I forget how she's related) who died of a botched abortion. My grandma was named after her. I always admired that that bit of family history was never covered up.
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Incredible scholarship here.
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thank you
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Two weeks after the article’s publication, the newspapers coast to coast reported her suicide by cyanide poisoning in the arts colony of Carmel-by-the-Sea
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