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Not exactly on topic but Silphium is something you might be interested in reading about if you find this interesting. It was used by the ancient Romans as contraceptive. People often talk about animals going extinct due to humans but plants don’t get much coverage.
(Edit the wiki page for it claims it was also used in. Abortion so it might actually be on topic)
Oh that’s very interesting. I’ll look into that. Ever since I read the Masters of Rome series (historical fiction) I’ve become quite interested in the Romans!
This is really an awesome article. It also points to something without saying it directly: When abortion is made illegal in one area, it just makes abortion unavailable to women who can’t afford to travel from one place where it’s illegal to another where it’s legal to have an abortion. Anti-abortion laws actually just make abortion accessible to rich women who can afford to go the mile, so to speak, to have an abortion, something women usually don’t want to do. It’s painful to have an abortion, it’s a very sad experience. Anyway, there’s always going to be a distant far off place where abortion is legal for wealthy women to travel to if they can’t abort where they live. Poor women who would benefit from an abortion are left to poverty if abortion is illegal where they live.
That site is always an irritating experience, but here’s the related video that discusses the original find from 1934 and the subsequent “rediscovery” of the shaman and new excavations of the gravesite that revealed even more artifacts the original missed.
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