In early America, abortion was common—Ben Franklin published tips on how to do it—and women were trusted to know their own bodies.
, this wasn’t just a euphemism, but reflected an understanding of human health that believed that the suspension of menstruation—whether caused by pregnancy or any other condition—could just plain be bad for a woman’s health. Prior to quickening, a pregnant person might not evenImportantly, quickening was a marker that could only be gauged by the pregnant woman in question, which meant that women had a degree of authority regarding their pregnancies.
“Abortion was so ‘deeply rooted’ in colonial America that one of our nation’s most influential architects went out of his way to insert it into the most widely and enduringly read and reprinted math textbook of the colonial Americas,” colonial American literature expert Molly Farrellfor Slate, “and he received so little pushback or outcry for the inclusion that historians have barely noticed it is there. Abortion was simply a part of life, as much as reading, writing, and arithmetic.
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