Sentence examples for historical abortion from inspiring English sources
Kate Manning's graphic description of historical abortion methods almost obscures her critical point: Women will always find a way to end unwanted pregnancies.
(Note that these don't even scratch the surface of all the historical abortion methods around: the ancient Chinese used mercury, and lists of supposedly miscarriage-inducing plants used in the Middle Ages could stretch on for pages. These are just the most spectacularly awful ones).
A high percentage of women obtaining repeat abortions reflects a high historical abortion rate.
A high percentage of women who have undergone repeat abortions reflects a high historical abortion rate.
The court found the historical purpose for regulating abortion had been to protect, rather than punish women and held that abortion laws should not be used to prosecute a woman for aborting her child.
Brautigan's other novels include The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 19711), The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western (1974), Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel (1976), and The Tokyo-Montana Express (1979).
Conservative evangelist Pat Robertson's endorsement of Giuliani -- a subject of recent news headlines -- makes a lot more sense in the context of Giuliani's actual historical record on the abortion issue.
These results are from February 2013: The Gallup results are also consistent: As Gallup's historical chart shows, opinion on abortion has not shifted in a major way over the years.
More broadly, as we have argued throughout, engaging with the changing profile of backstreet abortion practices and their historically specific inscriptions, meanings, and appropriations, enables us to develop a historical understanding of the case of Ten Rillington Place.
Five years into a wave of anti-abortion legislation that is without historical precedent, Johnston is not surprised.
The historical links are far stronger than most observers of abortion politics acknowledge.
