Moll's next relationship was for six years to the married man from Bath, and Moll bore three children, but only the first one lived. ... She has no friends or any acquaintances to help her and says some appalling things about miscarrying. ... (P: 171) She wishes she could miscarry, but would never do anything to make herself miscarry. ... Even the thought of wanting your unborn child to be miscarried is repulsive and not very motherly, which again shows Moll has no regard for her children. ... Moll's main concern is how to get rid of the baby, for she does not want to take it wi...

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I started skipping school doing drugs and being completely uncontrollable. my father had no idea what to do with me so he would hit me thinking that that would change my ways. ... School was boring as always and the only thing I had to look forward to was my mom picking me up this evening. ... I wasn't much of a good cook I would either make chicken or some sort of food with ground beef. ... She ran off to get the car seat and the baby's bag while I gathered my things. ... Some people would make comments about me being a whore and saying very distasteful things about me. ...

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Quickening generally occurred during the mid-point of gestation, late in the fourth or early in the fifth month, though it would and still does vary a good deal from one woman to another (pg.3). ... After quickening, the expulsion and destruction of the fetus without due case was considered a crime, because the fetus itself had manifested some semi-balance of a separate existence: the ability to move (pg3). ... Substantial evidence suggest that many American women sought abortions, tried the standard techniques of the day, and no doubt succeeded some proportions of the time in terminating unwa...

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Quickening generally occurred during the mid-point of gestation, late in the fourth or early in the fifth month, though it would and still does vary a good deal from one woman to another (pg.3). ... After quickening, the expulsion and destruction of the fetus without due case was considered a crime, because the fetus itself had manifested some semi-balance of a separate existence: the ability to move (pg3). ... Substantial evidence suggest that many American women sought abortions, tried the standard techniques of the day, and no doubt succeeded some proportions of the time in terminating unwa...

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Substantial evidence suggest that many American women sought abortions, tried the standard techniques of the day, and no doubt succeeded some proportions of the time in terminating unwanted pregnancies. ... Again, the context was spontaneous by the then induced abortion, but in a book with such explicit suggestions for relieving the common cold, woman could easily conclude that the health risks involved in bringing on an abortion were relatively low, or at least not much worse than childbirth itself in 1808, when Jennings wrote in his book (18). ... During the 1840's Americans also learne...

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