Women have always controlled their fertility throughout the entire history of time. — Dr. @lmacthompson1
Did you know:
—in old-timey-times women got abortions w no constraints?
—ads for abortion were so common in the 1800s they were blasé?
—native women controlled their fertility & men had no say?
Today's @OrdEquality ep will blow your freakin’ mind
Women have always controlled their fertility throughout the entire history of time. — Dr. @lmacthompson1
"Emperor Augustus was complaining about elite Roman women not having enough children... Roman women were using knowledge from Egypt to practice fertility control..."
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The woman is the power. It's up to her to be able to decide if she's fit enough to carry a pregnancy, or whether she's going to return it to creation.
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During the period of witchcraft suppression of the things that the witches were accused of doing 7 items were listed &— 6 of those 7 had to do with sexuality.
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15/Reproductive control info and items were EVERYWHERE in early and antebellum America \u2013 newspaper ads, the lecture circuit, moral physiology books, almanacs, book and news stands, druggists, you name it.
— Dr. Lauren MacIvor Thompson (@lmacthompson1) June 5, 2019
He relentlessly hounded Madame Restell until he had her arrested & she tragically died by suicide the day before her trial!
This dude kick-started the crusade against birth control & abortion. 👇
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"After the civil war, state after state began criminalizing abortion & doctors who were male tried seize everything having to do with childbirth & pregnancy from midwives who were women." —@KathaPollitt
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Doctors professionalized & voilà!— in order to get power— took it away from midwives.
This depressing arc is ALL about power & control.
CHECK THIS EP OUT 🎧
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