Abortion: A History by Mary Fissell

Abortion: A History

Mary Fissell

277 pages first pub 2025 (view editions)

nonfiction feminism health history
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From classical Greece to Roe v. Wade, a long-overdue history of abortion.An ancient entertainer unable to work while pregnant; a medieval holy woman performing a 'miraculous termination'; a Reformation-era abortion provider prosecuted as a witch; ...

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