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Margaret Jay Jessee

Associate Professor of English, University of Alabama at Birmingham

An anti-abortion picket, with protestors holding placards reading 'Abortion Kills', 'Celebrate Life', 'Abortion is Murder,' 'Stop Killing Babies' and 'Baird: What's the Body Count at Your Abortion Mill Now?', with a sign for a Mobil petrol station in the background, picket a birth control lecture by reproductive rights advocate Bill Baird, United States, 13th August 1971. (Peter L Gould/FPG/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the “evil abortionist”

Margaret Jay Jessee