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A defiant, funny virtual conversation traces the millennia long history of abortion, from medieval Europe and Ming Dynasty China to enslaved women in the American South and nuns smuggling herbs. Author Madeline Quasebarth and researcher Lee Hasselbacher dig into how reproductive control has been contested across cultures and eras.
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