Dude, who even knows.
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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?
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Sometimes the feminists are right and so much of midwifery was just not written down into the canons of early modern medicine
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Note that the modern abortion drugs were developed in the 1980s too. At the time there were some experiments with using...
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I get the impression that a whole lot of things got just written down as “died in childbirth” before anyone knew that there was a difference
yeli-renrong said: I’m not sure about the occupational specialties, but abortifacient herbs and human awareness thereof have been around and widespread for a very long time
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