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The Trials of Madame Restell

Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime

Nicholas L. Syrett

2023

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Madame Restell

‘Hag of Misery’

The abortionist Madame Restell is central to the story of how American women’s reproductive freedom was dismantled in the second half of the nineteenth century.

by Susan Faludi via New York Review of Books on October 12, 2023

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