John M. Riddle called these circumstances a "broken chain of knowledge", one he attributed to the historic persecution of women acting as witches, midwives, or wisewomen who had knowledge of such practices.

History

The medical literature of classical antiquity often refers to pharmacological means of abortion; abortifacients are mentioned, and sometimes described in detail, in the works of Aristotle, Caelius Aurelianus,

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