So we hear that ectopic pregnancy is (can be?) fatal, so uh, how was it treated before Roe v. Wade? Just therapeutic surgical abortion? And before that?

Like, if this has always been a thing that happens to humans, it left traces on history, right? I knew that pregnancy used to be more often fatal with women dying in childbirth, but I’m trying to think of a historical, even fictional occasion of a woman getting pregnant and it just going sideways. There might well be, but still, I’m trying to think of it.

Midwives! Was this one of their things, that they had some key to recognizing and then providing abortifacient herbs?