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History of Abortion

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

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Do You Have a Uterist?

For many a ancient people, though, who would have desired to endto pregnancy, the options were not necessarily safe or effective. The first mention of the practice of abortion that i know of the ebers papyrus, from 50 b c e,. It generally just says like, in terms of what what it talks about, it's its mentioning that if the father is not involved in the decision making there there would have been a penalty. A lot of this was tied up with who would get property if the paternal figure died and concerns about infidelity.

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