Meet the Queen Bee of Victorian Abortionists
Briefly

MADAME RESTELL: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist, by Jennifer Wright Jennifer Wright opens her painfully timely biography of Madame Restell, the notorious abortionist of Fifth Avenue, with her final arrest, in 1878, at the hands of the anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock.
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