Women’s Bodies, Demography, and Public Health: Abortion Policy and Perspectives in the Ottoman Empire of the Nineteenth Century

Tuba Demirci, Selçuk Akşin Somel

Journal of the History of Sexuality · 2008 · 138 citations · 16 references

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Abstract

This article discusses the anti-abortion policy of the Ottoman state between 1789 and 1908, taking into account legal changes, demographic policies, new sanitary measures and proto-nationalistic agenda of the ruling elite.

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