Page from George Lippard's New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million describing the home of the novel's antagonist, the abortion provider Madame Resimer
A page from Southern Medical Reports containing an 1849 study conducted by Dr. E. M. Pendleton of Georgia on differences in the prevalence of certain diseases--including rates of miscarriage--between free white and enslaved Black women.
Rear cover of a small booklet produced by the Chichester Chemical Company that promises unspecified relief to women and containing testimonials to the efficacy of Chichester's English Pennyroyal Pills.
Front cover of a small booklet produced by the Chichester Chemical Company that promises unspecified relief to women and containing testimonials to the efficacy of Chichester's English Pennyroyal Pills.
The cover of Horatio Storer's pamphlet Eutokia in which Storer advocates for the use of anesthesia in childbirth, arguing that it may help to reduce abortion
A page from Ned Buntline's anti-abortion novel The Mysteries and Miseries of New York in which the narrator moralizes about the punishment that awaits the novel's antagonist.
A page from Ned Buntline's anti-abortion novel The Mysteries and Miseries of New York in which the narrator moralizes about the punishment that awaits the novel's antagonist.
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Metal container with red, black, and gold chromolithograph advertising "Chichester's English Pennyroyal Pills," a popular abortifacient produced by the Chichester Chemical Company of Philadelphia.
A chapter from George H. Napheys' The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife, and Mother in which the author states his opposition to abortion
A page from Blackstone's commentary on the laws of England in which Blackstone discusses changes in the enforcement of laws prohibiting pre-marital sex.