With the tightening (if not in practice abolishing) of the abortion rights in Poland you can often hear complaints that regressive legislation bring us "back to the Middle Ages". But what was actually the attitude towards (and practice of) abortion in the Middle Ages?

by luomo_tigre
WelfOnTheShelf

u/sunagainstgold has written a few answers about abortion in the ancient, medieval, and early modern period. She compiled some of them here:

Before the invention of anything to prevent pregnancy, were prostitutes just pregnant all the time? What happened to their babies?