The Trials of Madame Restell

The Trials of Madame RestellThe biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century, and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights. For forty years in the mid nineteenth century, "Madame Restell," the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out