So Lindsey Graham says abortion should be illegal bc it’s not mentioned in the Constitution. I checked and he’s right. But childbirth isn’t mentioned either so I guess we need to ban that too

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) September 7, 2018

That was true for British colonies. In the French, while illegal, they were still performed.
“Throughout the colonial period and during the early years of the republic, the abortion situation for slave women was different than for other women.”https://t.co/no8s7zmmbS

— Susan Hatch (@SusaMorgan) September 7, 2018

Welcome. Good pts in abstract. This one is even better:
“Some late-nineteenth-century observers estimated that two million were performed annually (which would mean that in Victorian America the number of abortions per capita was seven or eight times as high as it is today).” 1/

— Susan Hatch (@SusaMorgan) September 7, 2018