5/19/2023 0 Comments Eve's Herbs by John M. RiddleEven some prominent religious figures offered guidance to help women manage reproduction through drugs, including the 12th-century Catholic nun Hildegard von Bingen, who wrote medical texts describing how to prepare abortifacients. Later, male apothecaries started competing with them. In the Middle Ages, Riddle’s book details, villages would have had a midwife or “wise woman,” who prescribed contraceptives and abortifacients made from plants like pennyroyal and yarrow. Although conservative Christians today often assume their community has always maintained a moral, religious and legal opposition to abortion, the truth is more complicated.
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