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How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the 'evil abortionist'

  • Written by Margaret Jay Jessee, Associate Professor of English, University of Alabama at Birmingham
imageEquating abortion with infanticide has a long history. Peter L Gould/FPG/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, one aspect of the abortion debate stayed the same: lurid sensationalism.

GOP firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene extolled the court for outlawing “mass genocide,”...

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