Title:: [[A Termination]]
Authors:: [[Honor Moore]]
Tags:: #memoir
Read:: [[2025-01-04]]
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## Editions
- Edition:: [[A Public Space Books]], First Edition, 2024
- Original Copyright:: 2024
- Pages:: 132
## Purchase
* Bookshop.org:: https://bookshop.org/a/94437/9798985976922
## Annotations
Today I learned about the rabbit test (or Friedman test) - an early pregnancy test that involves injecting a woman’s urine into a rabbit, euthanizing the rabbit, then dissecting the rabbit to examine whether its ovaries were enlarged (if yes, then the woman is pregnant). This was less than a hundred years ago. Incredible.
Learned this thanks to Moore’s memoir about her abortion, which took place in 1969. It’s more a psychological examination of her experience, and yet, it’s impossible not to notice the legal and cultural regressions happening around us today.