2600 BC First recorded recipe for an abortion producing drug. BC Egyptians record recipe for contraceptive pessaries, one made from crocodile dung. 4 th Century AD St. Augustine lays down Catholic dogma sanctioning abortion up to 80 days for female fetus and up to 40 days for male fetus. 13 th Century AD - St. Thomas Aquinas states Catholic dogma justifying sexual intercourse only for procreation.
All states pass comprehensive, criminal abortion laws.
Most remain until 1973. 1869 Pope Pius IX forbids all abortions in exchange for France s Napoleon III acknowledging papal infallibility. France s population experienced a sharp decrease over the previous 60 years. Margaret Higgins Sanger is born. 1913 Margaret Sanger arrested for violation of Comstock laws because of feminist birth control columns in, The Woman Rebel.