The practice of abortion, the termination of a women pregnancy so that it does not result into giving birth, goes back to women in slavery. Abortion started off as a method of using herbs, sharpen implements, and other techniques to prevent women from conceiving an unwanted child. Woman than believed the fetus to be plantlike in nature, and not an animal until the moment of birth, when the baby finally inhale air. Therefore, they found abortion to be acceptable.Woman have used abortion to control their reproduction at every point in the history of society. Abortion started in the 1800’s and was practiced until around the 1880’s. Most states in the U.S had banned abortion accept for saving the life of the women. Back than, women with money would leave the state or find a doctor who perform the procedure for a high risk. Than women of poor would try to stick needles or hangers into their viginas and uterus. Some would even swallow dangerous pills and strong chemicals. Using drugs and swallowing chemicals could cause problems for the fetus and kills the fetus. Sometimes the chemicals could affect the mother’s body so much, it can kill the her. Women was having hard times and struggling with having contraceptive that they did anything to prevent them from having the babies than. When abortion started, women of color were being rapped. They were forced to have sex with their master, their masters friend and even the masters children. Masters would have sex with their slaves and forced the slave to get rid of the fetus on their own with no care in the world that the baby is apart of him. During the 1800’s they believed abortion was the solution to their problems. Abortion saved women of color from misery and pain of having to raise child that they can’t afford, not only the cost of the baby but having to bring a child in the world knowing what life would be like and how miserable the child and bringing the child into the world to be slaved and bossed around by a white man, and to live being treated differently because your color, would be harsh to the child being born, knowing what they going to go through. Basically having a baby so that the baby could go through pain and hell the child’s whole life. Being alive doing the 1800’s was nothing but life full with punishment,pain, and beatens. Women got beaten when they disobeyed man so they were forced to have sex. Sometimes they even gotten beaten so bad, they died. During this time of abortions, slavery was happening and it made it impossible for a women to raise a child or even carry a fetus for nine months. Women had to pick cotton, walk miles with swollen feet, and had no options of shoes. Carrying a child, having a huge stomach, while trying to pick cotton from the field was impossible. It may could’ve happened but you had to be at a certain count of cotton picked a day. A baby would just slow you down. Getting pregnant, they would become useless to their owners. Abortion was the solution to their problems than, and colored women found it useful because of the way they were forced to live. The women back then had reasons to abort their child, they had no choice.
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