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What The Actual F*ck? Life After Roe v. Wade

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Did Licaportion Tonics Work as Abortion?

Historically, it was always a kind of midwifes who would performd them. There's contradicting evidence about whether these items worked as abortivatients or not. A lot of thesebortion laws that we first get in the nineteenth century have absolutely nothing to do with the foetus. They have to do with protecting te women from unscrupulous abortion doctors are getting hurt. So if they were, they took too much of thing, and, but it wasn't to protect the foetus,. It was to protect the mother.

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