
Historical Abortion w/ Jennifer Wright
Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria
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Horatio Storr's Anti-Abortion Campaign
Storr also removed women's ovaries if he thought that they were hysterical in any way. So clearly, there's some very eugenicist tendencies going on here. I wouldn't say it's eugenics yet. It's just xenophobia. Like it's just fear of a great replacement at this point: There are going to be too many Irish people in the country instead of the special white Protestant babies we like.
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