Original sentence: As the Catholic Church gained control of European society, women who dispensed abortifacient herbs found themselves classified as witches and were often persecuted (see witchhunt).Silphium figured so prominently in the wealth of Cyrene that the plant appeared on the obverse and reverse of coins minted there.Silphium, which was native only to that part of Libya, was overharvested by the Greeks and was effectively driven to extinction.Since humans of all cultures began using herbs as medicine, they have observed which herbs could lead to miscarriage and either shunned or embraced them as needs dictated.The use of various herbs as abortifacients is a practice that predates history
Edited sentence: Morning-after pills and other abortifacients.Other drugs in use today that function as abortifacients are the normal birth control pill and the morning-after pill