Crash Course: "Patients would come 9 or 10 times": What we can learn from the first time abortion was banned

Author Jennifer Wright on abortionist Madame Restell, who got rich in the 1900s — before the right drove her to suicide. [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl4HHPP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvNWluNHB5Z2trci8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWJuOWlpb3hzMDlXA3NwY0IKY_bQ7P1jeS3KMVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl4HHPP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvODE1cXBlanB0NC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWJuOWlpb3hzMDkmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKY_bQ7P1jeS3KMVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). "Patients would come 9 or 10 times": What we can learn from the first time abortion was banned It's a historical fact that has been buried for far too long, but is now more relevant than ever: In the 19th century, abortion was extremely popular. About one in five pregnancies ended with abortion. As author Jennifer Wright notes, "Abortion was so much more common in the 19th century than people think it was today." Wright's new book retells the story of a Victorian-era abortion empire run by Ann Trow Lohman, better known as Madame Restell. [Read Wright's interview with Amanda Marcotte.](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl4HHPP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdW1ubTJueHZqeS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWJuOWlpb3hzMDkmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKY_bQ7P1jeS3KMVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) (Photo via Getty Images/mikroman6) The proposed TikTok ban is political theater There are legitimate reasons to worry about cyber security and espionage, whether from China, Russia or elsewhere, and the US government’s IT standards are woeful. But banning or punishing TikTok is just political theater because it’s a Chinese company being used as a scapegoat to feed anti-China hysteria and because doing something symbolic is way easier than fixing the real problems. 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Alabama's rush to resume executions leaves many questions unanswered Alabama's attorney general is rushing to restart executions in the state after submitting a report filled with omissions to Gov. Kay Ivey, messages show. These grim exchanges [may put Alabama back in the execution business](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl4HHPP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdngxbGVlbTdpai8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWJuOWlpb3hzMDlXA3NwY0IKY_bQ7P1jeS3KMVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), but they leave many questions unanswered. 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