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“Historians have written at length about how physicians promoted the regulation and restriction of abortion in part to consolidate power and weaken the credibility of the midwives—typically women—who often helped people terminate their pregnancies. One of the era’s leading anti-abortion crusaders, Dr. Horatio Storer, proselytized another explicitly racist argument: banning abortion was necessary to ensure that White Anglo-Saxon Protestant women kept giving birth in order to prevent American demographics from shifting to become too Irish, too Italian, too Jewish, or too Black.”
― Shefali Luthra, Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America