avenue abortionist she led an abortion clinic at a time when women were barely in medicine she faced attacks. the government had her arrested and tried. here is how one periodical villainized her to the readership she s standing there over a monster literally eating a baby or a child from this very real history to the fiction that we hear about today when you look at handmaid s tale, so much cr crackdowns seem drown from this antiquated material. these are stories that fit into the broader history of how we got to the ending of roe in america. it s also, none of it, an accident that s the argument in a new book it s a historical dissection on the roots of what we face today.