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..."
https://t.co/cDGZbKKBdG
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.
https://t.co/cDGZbKKBdG
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. 👇
"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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I’ve always felt that the luckiest people I know had a talent for recognizing circumstances, not of their own making, that were conducive to a favorable outcome and their ability to quickly take advantage of them.
In other words, dumb luck was just that, it required no awareness on the person’s part, whereas “smart” luck involved awareness followed by action before the circumstances changed.
So, was I “lucky” to be born when I was—nothing I had any control over—and that I came of age just as huge databases and computers were advancing to the point where I could use those tools to write “What Works on Wall Street?” Absolutely.
Was I lucky to start my stock market investments near the peak of interest rates which allowed me to spend the majority of my adult life in a falling rate environment? Yup.
Ironies of Luck https://t.co/5BPWGbAxFi
— Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) March 14, 2018
"Luck is the flip side of risk. They are mirrored cousins, driven by the same thing: You are one person in a 7 billion player game, and the accidental impact of other people\u2019s actions can be more consequential than your own."
I’ve always felt that the luckiest people I know had a talent for recognizing circumstances, not of their own making, that were conducive to a favorable outcome and their ability to quickly take advantage of them.
In other words, dumb luck was just that, it required no awareness on the person’s part, whereas “smart” luck involved awareness followed by action before the circumstances changed.
So, was I “lucky” to be born when I was—nothing I had any control over—and that I came of age just as huge databases and computers were advancing to the point where I could use those tools to write “What Works on Wall Street?” Absolutely.
Was I lucky to start my stock market investments near the peak of interest rates which allowed me to spend the majority of my adult life in a falling rate environment? Yup.
