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For some reason, I have a hard time believing that abortion was a widely accepted practice in a time when contraception was such a taboo subject. Info on the subject couldn't even cross state lines due to the Comstock Act, which classified it as obscene material. I get the feeling that a government so opposed to teaching women how to prevent pregnancy would also be opposed to terminating the pregnancies they didn't prevent.
She's completely wrong for a few reasons:Before the civil war abortion was legal??? For blacks?
Um, weren't black women slaves and thus the chirrens ended up as pickanninnys owned by slave holders to raise them to pick cotton, pluck chicken or be the friends and maids to their own children? Why would they abort property? Why my lands, pig farmers don’t abort piglets!
I’ve no doubt women who didn’t want to be torn away from more kids found a way to do highly secretive abortions, but come on. Property is usually valuable.
What backwards thinking is this? Do they not know about slavery or is it me who is horribly misinformed.
Maybe in California free black women had access but considering in those days it was common to have many children, I doubt it.
- Abortions back then were dangerous. Hell, childbirth itself was very dangerous. Trying to perform an abortion would very likely kill the mother, so obviously it wasn't a common practice.
- Abortion wasn't explicitly illegal, but it wasn't legal either - it was just considered to be murder. Abortion having a unique legal status is a much more recent thing. If you got caught then you would be hanged, no doubt.
- The 'black and indigenous women' stuff is just some made up we wuz kangz bullshit. No reason to think it was more prevalent among them than in white society. Also the fact that it's illegal has nothing to do with 'white supremacy' unless you consider every law in the US to be based on white supremacy (which is probably exactly what she thinks).
- The majority of people who carried them out were shady (white) doctors and surgeons.