where did this myth of the teenage temptress who lies about their age to seduce the older man come from?
grown men who dont want to take responsibility for their actions and like to place the blame on the most relevant easy target probably
One June 1868 account is particularly disturbing, as it recounts the grisly death of one exceptionally desperate 38 year old, Jersey City area woman and mother by the name of Henrietta Berry. Berry was so distressed to end her first trimester pregnancy that she underwent two self-inflicted attempts. The first was some kind of orally administered concoction, but this failed. The second proved painfully fatal:
"On Thursday she resorted to the use of some kind of instrument, by which it is supposed that the was injured internally, as she immediately grew worse, and although a physician was called in, death resulted in twenty four hours…deceased was 38…and the mother of four children."
There are countless case studies of women who died from illegal abortions before the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. Their desperation led them toward unbelievably gruesome means of terminating their unwanted pregnancies - knitting needles, swallowing turpentine or bleach, broken glass, and the infamous coat hanger.
Even now, people in the United States are resorting to illegal abortions in areas where access to safe, legal abortion is nonexistent.
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