No. The legendary abortion tale referred to is the story of an anonymous woman who is said to have killed her unborn child because a doctor had told her that it would either be born dead or alive. The doctor’s words in this story are often misquoted to seem as though he had given her a choice between ‘dead or alive’ when in fact, the story never says this. All it says is that the doctor warned her that the baby may be stillborn.
Did a doctor order her left ‘dead or alive’? Revisiting an abortion tale
