Induced Abortion

From the moment man realized he could write words upon clay tablets and papyrus, he began to keep record of day-to-day events that occurred within his civilization. This type of record keeping allowed humans in the modern era to recover the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus, “an ancient medical text drawn ostensibly from records dating back to the third millennium BCE” (Potts and Campbell 1). Within this medical text, archeologists located the first recorded evidence of an induced abortion using a “plant fiber tampon coated with a compound … [that consisted of] honey and crushed dates” (Potts and Campbell 2). As one can see, abortion has gone on for thousands of years, possibly even prior to the beginning of recorded history. However, with recorded history,