Abortion

I often research things that interest me and am surprised at how differing opinions can be and abortion is no exception. Here is a small sample. Abortions were legal in the US from 1600 to 1857. Abortion was not just legal—it was a safe, condoned, and practiced procedure in colonial America and common enough to appear in the legal and medical records of the period.  Various herbal remedies were used. The concoctions were made variously of tansy oil, pennyroyal, rue, ergot, perhaps opium, and had dangerous side effects (damage internal organs, seizures, death) but in correct doses were sometimes effective in causing miscarriage. In New York, surgical abortion in 1800s carried a death rate of 30% regardless of hospital setting.