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The Criminalization of Abortion Began as a Business Tactic
    #27844808 - 07/01/22 10:17 AM (1 year, 6 months ago)

What an interesting article:

"If you opened up the Leavenworth Times, a Kansas newspaper, in the 1850s, you’d see an ad for Sir James Clarke’s Female Pills. These pills, the advertiser bragged, were ideal for bringing on women’s periods—and were “particularly suited to married ladies.”

Then there was Madame Costello, a “female physician” who took out an ad in the New York Herald in the 1840s. She advertised to women “who wish to be treated for obstruction of the monthly period.”

Both ads ran in plain sight, among advertisements for real estate and hair tonics. Both advertised abortions. And for a reader of the time, neither would have raised an eyebrow. Pregnancy was dangerous, and the consequences faced by unwed mothers were severe.

Though the 19th century is seen as a time of more restrictive sexual mores, abortion was actually common: according to at least one estimate, one in every five women at the time had had an abortion. Abortifacients were hawked in store fronts and even door to door. Vendors openly advertised their willingness to end women’s pregnancies. And in private, women shared information about how to prevent conception and induce miscarriages.

Then things changed—thanks in part to doctors determined to make abortions their realm. During the second half of the 19th century, American physicians intent on overseeing women’s reproductive health campaigned to criminalize abortion, sending a common practice underground.

One of the reasons abortion was accepted at the time had to do with how Americans back then thought about the human body. Folk and medical wisdom held that the body was a place of equilibrium. If something occurred to throw the body out of balance—like the cessation of a woman’s menstrual period due to pregnancy—it was seen as a problem that needed to be remedied. Doctors encouraged women to act swiftly if their periods were delayed, and women commonly took so-called “emmenagogues,” drugs designed to stimulate menstrual flow, or used herbal remedies and folk practices like laying in bed with hot bricks to bring on their periods.

If this didn’t work, a woman could buy patent medicines like Sir James Clarke’s Female Pills, which contained oil of savin. Or she could visit a “female doctor” to get an abortion. In the mid 19th century, there were few female physicians, but some women billed themselves as doctors anyway and specialized in women’s health, contraception and abortion.

One such woman was Ann Lohman, who terminated countless pregnancies as “Madame Restell” during her 40-year-long career. Though Lohman had no formal medical training, she made a career selling patent medicines and helping pregnant women who wished to give birth without losing their reputations. Lohman’s business was so well known—and so successful—that it inspired copycats and helped create a booming abortion business in American cities.

This infuriated those who felt that abortion was immoral—and created troubling competition for physicians. At the time, medicine was becoming an actual profession instead of the realm of homegrown practitioners, and the rise of medical schools and accreditation created a class of professional doctors. These physicians were suspicious of the midwives and self-styled “doctors” many women relied on for abortions, and as soon as the American Medical Association formed in 1847, its members began to agitate to make abortion illegal."



So what do you think? What is the real reason for abortion laws?


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Anonymous #2

Re: The Criminalization of Abortion Began as a Business Tactic [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #27844872 - 07/01/22 11:26 AM (1 year, 6 months ago)

"So what do you think? What is the real reason for abortion laws?"

Politicians virtue signaling = votes from the religious = mo money & mo power

Religious people already have a propensity to happily swallow someone else's bullshit if it sounds good making them easily manipulated, plus they're usually very stuck in their ways once they get behind an idea so they're pretty much a politician's wet dream

Does anyone actually believe politicians care so much about an unborn potential human?  They don't give two shits about people that are already here but we're supposed to believe the ones that claim to care about an unborn child's rights?
:justno:


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Anonymous #1

Re: The Criminalization of Abortion Began as a Business Tactic [Re: Anonymous #2]
    #27845634 - 07/01/22 07:45 PM (1 year, 6 months ago)

Quote:

Anonymous #2 said:
"So what do you think? What is the real reason for abortion laws?"

Politicians virtue signaling = votes from the religious = mo money & mo power

Religious people already have a propensity to happily swallow someone else's bullshit if it sounds good making them easily manipulated, plus they're usually very stuck in their ways once they get behind an idea so they're pretty much a politician's wet dream

Does anyone actually believe politicians care so much about an unborn potential human?  They don't give two shits about people that are already here but we're supposed to believe the ones that claim to care about an unborn child's rights?
:justno:




^ Perfect response :thumbup:

Votes from the religious for people that couldn't give two fucks less.

Edit: I imagine the same politicians would shoot the mothers in the stomach and kill the babies themselves if they thought it would get them more votes. The true nature is not human life they could not give a fuck less. It's votes


Edited by Anonymous (07/01/22 07:47 PM)


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Anonymous #3

Re: The Criminalization of Abortion Began as a Business Tactic [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #27845774 - 07/01/22 09:22 PM (1 year, 6 months ago)

Quote:

Anonymous #1 said:

^ Perfect response :thumbup:

Votes from the religious for people that couldn't give two fucks less.

Edit: I imagine the same politicians would shoot the mothers in the stomach and kill the babies themselves if they thought it would get them more votes. The true nature is not human life they could not give a fuck less. It's votes





That's all either side cares about. Votes. They'd run over their own mothers with a tractor if it meant winning/holding office.

You think the left really cares about gay people, minorities, the environment?

They don't. They care about power.


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Anonymous #1

Re: The Criminalization of Abortion Began as a Business Tactic [Re: Anonymous #3]
    #27846067 - 07/02/22 07:19 AM (1 year, 6 months ago)

Quote:

Anonymous #3 said:
Quote:

Anonymous #1 said:

^ Perfect response :thumbup:

Votes from the religious for people that couldn't give two fucks less.

Edit: I imagine the same politicians would shoot the mothers in the stomach and kill the babies themselves if they thought it would get them more votes. The true nature is not human life they could not give a fuck less. It's votes





That's all either side cares about. Votes. They'd run over their own mothers with a tractor if it meant winning/holding office.

You think the left really cares about gay people, minorities, the environment?

They don't. They care about power.




Extremely


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