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- From: jmm25@po.CWRU.Edu (Jessica M. Mcgeary)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
- Subject: Re: Green Dragons and Eggs...
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 18:30:49 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- >Article #2402 (2404 is last):
- >From: 01fortec@ac.dal.ca
- >Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
- >Subject: Re: Green Dragons and Eggs...
- >Date: Mon Nov 23 07:55:08 1992
- >
- >In article <722304362snz@keris.demon.co.uk>, chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton) writes:
- >>
- >> (lotsa deleted)
- >>
- >> On a related topic, what (human) birth control is available on Pern?
- >> Lessa mentions that "The hold girls are convinced it's immoral to abort"
- >> - how do they do abortions? There's no invasive surgery on Pern. Is
- >> there a natural drug? How about prevention - is there a natural
- >> contraceptive drug? (There is in Valdemar, but that's a different
- >> universe). The 'rhythm' method won't work, when a dragon could rise at
- >> any time...
- >>
- >> Chris
- >>
- >
- >I beleive the Japanese have an herb that can induce abortion and have used
- >it for a number of centuries. Maybe somebody else could expand on that. The
- >Pernese probably have something similar.
- >
- >Joe
- >01fortec@ac.dal.ca
-
- Around the 1890's or so there was a method of abortion available even in
- areas where most people were poor enough not to have access to doctors. I
- recall reading that it was used on occasion by prostitutes, who couldn't risk
- losing their jobs for that amount of time. It involved a certain kind of
- seaweed- I think it was one of the kelps- being dried and rolled into
- something roughly the size and shape of a pencil. Once this was
- accomplished, it was to be inserted into the appropriate orifice. Its
- subsequent expansion induced uterine contractions to such a degree that the
- objective was accomplished. (It was not a very good method; a lot of women
- died, and others got severe infections from it... but it was there.)
- Can't vouch for Japan, though.
- --
- "In place of your dream of an omniscient automaton, accept the fact that
- any knowledge man acquires is acquired by his own will and effort, and that
- _that_ is his distinction in the universe, _that_ is his nature, his
- morality, his glory." --Atlas Shrugged, p. 1058
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