Thursday, December 2, 2021
The Judge Who Told the Truth About the Mississippi Abortion Ban - The Atlantic
… When Congress banned importing slaves in 1807, slaveholders tried to preserve their workforce by prohibiting abortions. After the Civil War, anxious that birth rates were dropping for white people but rising for immigrants and people of color, many states declared abortion a crime. This effort to keep America white—in essence, to "improve" its stock—grew in the early 1900s along with interest in eugenics...
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