Were women and girls allowed to have abortions during the Renaissance??

Question: Were women and girls allowed to have abortions during the Renaissance!?!?

And were they common to have them!? were they dangerous!? Www@QuestionHome@Com

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They were probably common, but is was mostly an "underground" activity!. There were commonly known herbs and potions that would produce an abortion, but often it also killed the woman!. Some women thought that was better than showing a pregnancy (either because they were supposed to be virgins, they were raped, or they already had too many children)!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

It wasn't illegal!. What they would do was take a herb that is similar to the medicine found in birth control these days!. Or, a few hundred years later: go to a back alley and use a wire hanger to kill the baby!. im serious!Www@QuestionHome@Com

They were allowed if there was no family interferance!.

But it wasn't pretty because they tried doing it themselves which often resulted in their own demise!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Allowed, not so much!. But there were things (herbs, etc) used to induce abortion!. Abandonment or outright killing of unwanted infants after birth wasn't unheard of either!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

I would say so!. Childbirth was dangerous back then, so i guess an abortion would be too!.

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not with the damn rebublicans in the senate and house trying to stop all the fetus killingWww@QuestionHome@Com