Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid
Only for white women in cases of physical or mental distress. It was completely illegal for Black women or to aid and abet them in doing so because it deprived slaveowners of property. Some enslaved women drank concoctions they knew from their African roots to abort in defiance. — PolitiTweet.org
Dr. Aphra Behn @Shaker_aphra
Not to be flip, but in the 18th century abortion was legal until the quickening. This is actually worse. https://t.co/xpYO5BM5zr
