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Hello friends! As you probably know, on June 24, 2022 the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, stripping millions of Americans of their access to life-saving medical care, and their rights to privacy. One of the reasons the Supreme Court felt empowered to do this was because "abortion is never mentioned in the Constitution." And that begs the question: why? Why wasn't abortion seen as an issue worthy of mentioning in 1776?

On this special, off-topic episode, Janey is going to break down how people in the late 1700s/early 1800s felt about at-home abortions (and we're going…

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