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The Origins of Insanity in Women
SORR's thinking was that criminalizing abortion would help rebalance the scales of who was being born into this country. He saw this as a way to finally knock out the competition, midwives and people like Madame Marcel. The solution as he saw it, remove the cause, a woman's reproductive organs. So midwives were slandered in this campaign. Described as unsanitary, unclean, as immoral. And as clueless as the mothers themselves. Saying women do not know, they don't know when they quicken."