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Did you know? Abortions were practiced safely and legally as far back as U.S. Colonial times. Abortion laws did not appear in U.S. legislation until 1821, and was not deemed illegal by any laws until the 1860s. Physicians at the time were not only male but white, and they set out to cast aspersion upon the bipoc female-dominated professions of midwifery and herbalist as mere pseudoscience to uplift the white male-dominated field of medical science.