The memories are as an herbalist, as well as a young woman. Never, fear, I'm laughing all the way, at least when I'm not crying about the state of this country.
OMG, you brought back memories, and a long ago shelved bank of herbal knowledge. Women have always had to find a way around the tyranny of the powers that be, will continue to do so, but how ridiculous it's still happening, or re-happening by a bunch of mostly male legislators who believe they own women's bodies. Thank you for adding humor to a serious mess.
Alarming times we live in. Peggy Warne, a practicing obstetrician during the Revolutionary War, is buried in the Mansfield-Woodhouse cemetery near where I live. Interesting, but believable, that money would be the motivation for taking this important duty away from women.
Thank you, Pat. It's so important to get all of this out in the open. I'm sure you know the book but I wanted to mention for other readers Laurel Ulrich's book A Midwife's Tale, about a woman on the Maine frontier in the late 18th/early 19th century, based on Martha Ballard's diaries. Martha talks a lot about births, legitimate and not, and never mentions abortions, but reading between the lines you get a very clear picture of how the male medical profession moved in on midwifery and traditional woman-to-woman care and pretty much destroyed it.
Thank you for this brave post, Pat. An excellent, well-documented book on the history of women's efforts to manage their bodies: John Riddle's Eve's Herbs (Harvard Univ. Press). https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674270268 An important book for all of us now, if only to refute Alito's ridiculous assertion that there is no tradition of abortion in our country.
Thank you for this one, Pat! Stay strong!!
The memories are as an herbalist, as well as a young woman. Never, fear, I'm laughing all the way, at least when I'm not crying about the state of this country.
OMG, you brought back memories, and a long ago shelved bank of herbal knowledge. Women have always had to find a way around the tyranny of the powers that be, will continue to do so, but how ridiculous it's still happening, or re-happening by a bunch of mostly male legislators who believe they own women's bodies. Thank you for adding humor to a serious mess.
Alarming times we live in. Peggy Warne, a practicing obstetrician during the Revolutionary War, is buried in the Mansfield-Woodhouse cemetery near where I live. Interesting, but believable, that money would be the motivation for taking this important duty away from women.
Thank you, Pat. It's so important to get all of this out in the open. I'm sure you know the book but I wanted to mention for other readers Laurel Ulrich's book A Midwife's Tale, about a woman on the Maine frontier in the late 18th/early 19th century, based on Martha Ballard's diaries. Martha talks a lot about births, legitimate and not, and never mentions abortions, but reading between the lines you get a very clear picture of how the male medical profession moved in on midwifery and traditional woman-to-woman care and pretty much destroyed it.
Thank you for this brave post, Pat. An excellent, well-documented book on the history of women's efforts to manage their bodies: John Riddle's Eve's Herbs (Harvard Univ. Press). https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674270268 An important book for all of us now, if only to refute Alito's ridiculous assertion that there is no tradition of abortion in our country.