The trials of Madame Restell: nineteenth-century America's most infamous female physician and the campaign to make abortion a crime

The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century-and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rightsFor forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, Madame Restell, the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sol...

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