DYK #MadameRestell provided #BirthControl & #abortion for 40 yrs & ran ads in NYC newspapers until 1878? She killed herself when #AnthonyComstock campaigned against her & her woman's health services. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #AbortionBan #ComstockAct #TrumpChristians #WmnHist

DYK Caroline Ann Trow, aka #MadameRestell, (d.1878) provided #BirthControl & #abortion in NYC more than 40 yrs? Her first ad ran in the 1839 “New York Sun”:
“TO MARRIED WOMEN.— Is it not but too well known that the families of the married often increase beyond what the happiness