 I did a lot of research to write this poem, and I mean, I don't know that I knew that I was writing this poem when I did the research. I just started reading a lot, and I'm into 19th century U.S. culture. You know, I read lots of scholarly books that were published in the 90s and in the early 2000s. You know, a book called Contraception and Abortion in 19th Century America by a scholar named Janet Brody, a book called When Abortion Was a Crime by Leslie Reagan, and lots of other books. And they would mention in their discussions, though,