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The Laws of Abortion
In 18 78, anthony comstock made it his mission to end madame restell. He rang her door bell pretending that he was a married man seeking an abortion for his wife who already had too many children and wasn't in good enough health to berth another. On the morning of the day she was supposed to appear in court, one of her chambermaids walked into her bathroom to find her dead in her bathtub. When we think about this, is there any wonder why, for so long, medicine looked white and male in the united states? What explains that? It's certainly not because women aren't intellectually curious about medicine. It's not because women don't know how