Reproductive Rights Part 1

The United States began as a nation with unregulated but legal abortions being practiced, and common. Midwives, not doctors, were responsible for women’s reproductive health. Women were trusted to make decisions about their bodies and male doctors focused on other areas of medicine. At the turn of the 20th century, the United States had become a nation that had criminalized abortion, placed male doctors as the experts in women’s reproductive health, causing women across the nation to seek dangerous, and often deadly abortions outside of the confines of the law.

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