{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "So we hear that ectopic pregnancy is (can be?) fatal, so uh, how was it treated before Roe v. Wade? Just therapeutic surgical...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/693598461356097536/", "html": "<p>So we hear that ectopic pregnancy is (can be?) fatal, so uh, how was it treated <i>before</i> Roe v. Wade? Just therapeutic surgical abortion? And before that?</p><p>Like, if this has always been a thing that happens to humans, it left traces on history, right? I knew that pregnancy used to be more often fatal with women dying <i>in childbirth</i>, but I&rsquo;m trying to think of a historical, even fictional occasion of a woman getting pregnant and it just going sideways. There <i>might well be</i>, but still, I&rsquo;m trying to think of it.</p><p>Midwives! Was this one of their things, that they had some key to recognizing and then providing abortifacient herbs?</p>"}