In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued a papal bull endorsing the
‘correcting, imprisoning, punishing and chastising’ of witches, who
stood accused – among other crimes – of devising and applying methods of
contraception that ‘hinder men from begetting and women from
conceiving’, and creating abortifacients which ‘ruin and cause to perish
the offspring of women’. The population of Europe still hadn’t recovered
from the ravages of the Black Death and other disasters; it was critical
that women be punished for these nascent forms of birth control.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/january/ni-una-menos
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