Abortion is unstoppable

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"Almost half of American Women have terminated at least one pregnancy and millions more Americans of both sexes have helped them, as partners, parents, health care workers, counselors, friends." Katha Pollitt The Atlantic May 1997.

A woman who can't find a safe way to get an abortion will try anything. Here's some of the ways used throughout history

Blood letting

Climbing

Heated coconut on the stomach

Diving

Fasting

Girdle Tightening

Hot water on or in the abdomen

Jumping up and down touching the buttock with the heels

Sitting on a pot of steam

Candles shoved up the cervix

Any pointed devise shoved into the uterus.

Liquids of any type some of which have burned the vagina beyond recognition.

Oral abortifacients used

Birthwort

Cyprus

Lead mixed with plant juices

Dill  

Ergot a fungus found on rye

Galen

Gin

Hellebore white and black

Iron cloride

Iron Sulfate

Italian catnip

Lavender

Opium

Pennyroyal

Potassium permangarnate tablets

Rue

Sage

Savin (juniper)

Savory

Scarmony

Soapwart

Slippery elm

Spanish fly

Squirting cucumber

Tansy

Tea marjoram

Thyme

Trupentine

Watercress seed

Worm fern or prostitute root

Black tailed deer dissolved in fat

Camel saliva

Crushed ants