{"id":7062130,"date":"2026-09-20T14:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/lessons-from-nazi-germany-for-a-post-roe-america-nursing-clio\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T14:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:16:24","slug":"lessons-from-nazi-germany-for-a-post-roe-america-nursing-clio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7062130","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Nazi Germany for a Post-Roe America \u2013 Nursing Clio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"blog-title\">Controlling the Womb: Lessons from Nazi Germany for a Post-Roe America<\/h3>\n<div class=\"m-post-byline-with-avatar\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; flex-wrap:wrap; white-space:preserve\">\n<style><![CDATA[.m-post-avatars{ display: flex; margin-right: 10px; }.m-post-avatar{ border-radius: 100%; z-index: 1; }.m-post-avatar img { margin: 0 !important; border-radius: 100% }.m-post-avatar:not(:first-of-type){ margin-left: -7px }.m-post-avatar:nth-child(1){ z-index:1}]]><\/style>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"m-post-avatars\">\n<div class=\"m-post-avatar\" data-author-id=\"657\" data-author-type=\"user\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"36\" height=\"36\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nursingclio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Untitled-design.png?fit=36%2C36&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-36x36 size-36x36\" alt=\"NC logo in blakc\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nursingclio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Untitled-design.png?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nursingclio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Untitled-design.png?resize=405%2C405&amp;ssl=1 405w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nursingclio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Untitled-design.png?resize=181%2C181&amp;ssl=1 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 36px) 100vw, 36px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>\u201cWe allow the massacre of a million and a half babies a year under the guise of women\u2019s reproductive health\u2026It is never right to justify the mass termination of people under the guise of saying that they are unwanted. That\u2019s how we get Auschwitz, that\u2019s how we get the greatest horrors of the twentieth century.\u201d<sup><sup><a id=\"post-36494-footnote-ref-0\" href=\"#post-36494-footnote-0\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>These were the words of political activist Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point USA rally in March of 2025, directly comparing abortion to the Holocaust. Charlie Kirk was not the only political advocate drawing such a comparison. House Speaker Mike Johnson in a 2005 op-ed referred to abortion as a holocaust. Johnson wrote, \u201cThis disregard for life has been fostered by the courts. During business hours today, 4,500 innocent American children will be killed. It is a holocaust that has been repeated every day for 32 years, since 1973\u2019s Roe v. Wade.\u201d<sup><sup><a id=\"post-36494-footnote-ref-1\" href=\"#post-36494-footnote-1\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Invoking Auschwitz and the Holocaust to argue against abortion is historically illiterate and callously overlooks what actually happened to women under the Nazi Regime. For pregnant Jewish women who made it past selection in the concentration camps, undergoing an abortion was an alternative to the gas chamber. Within that history lies a story that those who invoke Auschwitz to argue against reproductive freedom would rather not confront: that the Nazi regime weaponized reproduction not to protect fetal life but to engineer the ethnonational state it wanted to become.<\/p>\n<p>The ideological architecture built around reproduction in the Third Reich shares a structure with the one being built in the United States today. Both pursue the same two-part strategy: incentivize births among women they consider essential to the nation\u2019s future, and restrict, criminalize, or coerce reproduction among the women they do not. The content of that ideal differs \u2013 in Nazi Germany, Aryan and \u201cracially fit\u201d and in the US, white, native-born and Christian \u2013 but the mechanism is recognizable.<\/p>\n<p>Nazi Germany\u2019s population policy was a public campaign, backed by the law, and rewarded to encourage a specific kind of birth. In December 1938, the Third Reich established the Cross of the Honour of the German Mother to encourage women of \u201cpure stock\u201d and \u201cgood genes\u201d to reproduce. Over three million German women received the cross. Hitler\u2019s signature was on the back. Magda Goebbels, wife of the propaganda minister and mother of six, was the first to receive it. The Reich report on miscarriage in 1941 said women who had a voluntary abortion before marriage \u201cwere therefore unhappy for the rest of their lives.\u201d<sup><sup><a id=\"post-36494-footnote-ref-2\" href=\"#post-36494-footnote-2\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/sup> This state-sanctioned ideology maintained that women were only fulfilled through motherhood, but only a particular woman\u2019s motherhood counted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36498\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36498 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nursingclio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Cross-of-Honor-of-the-German-Mother.jpg?resize=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"A metal cross bearing a swastika, with a ribbon attached.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nursingclio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Cross-of-Honor-of-the-German-Mother.jpg?resize=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1 723w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nursingclio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Cross-of-Honor-of-the-German-Mother.jpg?resize=405%2C270&amp;ssl=1 405w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nursingclio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Cross-of-Honor-of-the-German-Mother.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nursingclio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Cross-of-Honor-of-the-German-Mother.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nursingclio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Cross-of-Honor-of-the-German-Mother.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bronze Cross of Honor of the German Mother provided to German women who gave birth to four or five children. (Courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/collections.ushmm.org\/search\/catalog\/irn45181\">United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This ideology persists in current American rhetoric. In April 2025, just three months into the second Trump administration, the <em>New York Times <\/em>reported that the White House was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/21\/us\/politics\/trump-birthrate-proposals.html\">assessing ways to persuade women<\/a> to have more babies. Among the proposals was a \u201cNational Medal of Motherhood\u201d for women with six or more children. In 2021, JD Vance lamented that America was being run by \u201cDemocrats, oligarchs and childless cat ladies,\u201d arguing that people without children don\u2019t \u201chave a direct stake\u201d in the country. In his first public address as vice president, at the January 2025 March for Life, he was more explicit about who he had in mind: \u201cI want more babies in the United States of America\u2026And I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them.\u201d<sup><sup><a id=\"post-36494-footnote-ref-3\" href=\"#post-36494-footnote-3\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cmother\u201d this rhetoric imagines is not any mother. It is not the immigrant mother, long stigmatized in American political discourse through terms like \u201canchor babies\u201d or \u201cbirth tourism,\u201d which cast those children\u2019s citizenship as a calculated exploit rather than a birthright.<sup><sup><a id=\"post-36494-footnote-ref-4\" href=\"#post-36494-footnote-4\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/sup> It is not the Black mother, who has spent decades fending off the \u201cwelfare queen\u201d stereotype and who remains disproportionately dependent on Medicaid, which funds roughly 65 percent of Black mothers\u2019 births, even as the current administration pursuing pronatalist policy has also pursued deep Medicaid cuts.<sup><sup><a id=\"post-36494-footnote-ref-5\" href=\"#post-36494-footnote-5\">[6]<\/a><\/sup><\/sup> The same voices celebrating and encouraging rising birth rates in the abstract have, in other contexts, framed rising birth rates among Black and immigrant communities as a demographic threat, the fear behind the \u201cgreat replacement\u201d rhetoric that has moved from the margins of the right into its mainstream. This is the ideological architecture at work \u2013 an incentive structure that functions by naming, implicitly or explicitly, who it is not for. The growing control and attack on reproductive rights and bodily autonomy by the current administration and Republican politicians are unabashedly forcing a return to what they deem a \u201cgreat nation\u201d, a time centered around the \u201cideal\u201d family as outlined by the Heritage Foundation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/marriage-and-family\/report\/saving-america-saving-the-family-foundation-the-next-250-years\"><em>Saving America by Saving the Family.<\/em><\/a><em><sup><sup><a id=\"post-36494-footnote-ref-6\" href=\"#post-36494-footnote-6\">[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/sup> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Nazi Germany, reproductive policy was never simply about banning abortion; it was about controlling who should reproduce. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Nazi authorities had actually encouraged Jewish women to seek abortions, since terminating those pregnancies aligned with the Nazis\u2019 goals of eradicating the Jewish people. In Auschwitz-Birkenau, visibly pregnant women were sent directly to the gas chambers upon arrival. They could not serve as forced labor, and a Jewish pregnancy was a direct antithesis to the Nazi goal. Jewish prisoner-physician Dr. Gisella Perl performed abortions in the Auschwitz-Birkenau barracks at night, without anesthesia or proper hygiene, to give pregnant women a chance at survival.<sup><sup><a id=\"post-36494-footnote-ref-7\" href=\"#post-36494-footnote-7\">[8]<\/a><\/sup><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>However, as the war continued, a paradox emerged. In the Warsaw and Theresienstadt ghettos, edicts were passed that prohibited prisoners from undergoing abortions. The reasons shifted with Nazi strategic calculations, and just as often, with nothing more coherent than the disposition of whichever <em>Kommandant<\/em> controlled the ghetto that month. The inconsistency was not a failure of policy. It <em>was<\/em> the policy. Jewish reproduction was a tool of total control, exercised or withheld at will, answerable to no principle beyond what the state wanted. Whether forced to abort or forbidden from doing so, the decision was made by the state. During the Third Reich, an Aryan woman\u2019s value was tied to being a wife or a mother. If she was Jewish, her value was determined by whether her reproduction served or threatened the state.<\/p>\n<p>The American mechanism of exclusion looks different, and it is important not to conflate that difference. There is no American policy forcing abortion on any group of women. Instead the existing system, in which the <em>ability<\/em> to have children, on one\u2019s own terms, is being narrowed unevenly. This burden falls hardest on women who are poor, live in states with the most restrictive bans, lack the resources to travel for care, or are already targets of immigration enforcement. In 2020, a nurse at an ICE detention center, alleged that dozens of immigrant women had undergone hysterectomies without informed consent.<sup><sup><a id=\"post-36494-footnote-ref-8\" href=\"#post-36494-footnote-8\">[9]<\/a><\/sup><\/sup> When the news broke, it drew immediate comparisons to Nazi sterilizations and is a part of a longer American history of forced sterilization aimed at Black, Latina, and Indigenous women. The recent ramp-up of immigration raids in cities like Boston and Minneapolis saw many pregnant women skipping or avoiding care due to fears of deportation by ICE.<sup><sup><a id=\"post-36494-footnote-ref-9\" href=\"#post-36494-footnote-9\">[10]<\/a><\/sup><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>That erosion of access begins with the criminalization of those who provide care. From 1871 to 1945, Paragraph 218 of the German Penal Code outlawed abortion and restricted access to contraception.<sup><sup><a id=\"post-36494-footnote-ref-10\" href=\"#post-36494-footnote-10\">[11]<\/a><\/sup><\/sup> Despite women gaining suffrage under the Weimar Republic the old legal code was never revised. When the Third Reich assumed power in 1933, Paragraph 218 was ready and waiting \u2013 not merely a law against abortion, but a tool the regime could now use: tightened, enforced, and turned into an instrument for deciding whose children the state wanted.<\/p>\n<p>That year, the Nazis passed legislation prohibiting abortion facilities and services. Between 1932 and 1938, yearly convictions for abortion increased by 65 percent. From 1935 on, doctors and midwives were obligated to notify the regional State Health Office of every miscarriage to confirm it was natural and not the result of an abortion. In 1937, Nazi police arrested the Jewish physician Dr. Georg Manes in Hamburg on \u201curgent suspicion of commercial abortion.\u201d<sup><sup><a id=\"post-36494-footnote-ref-11\" href=\"#post-36494-footnote-11\">[12]<\/a><\/sup><\/sup> He was convicted, sentenced to three years\u2019 penal servitude, stripped of his medical license, and the state petitioned the University of W\u00fcrzburg to revoke his doctoral degree. In 1941, the Reich Statistical Office released a report on \u201cAbortion Crime Committed by Medical Professionals in the German Reich in the Years 1937\u20131939.\u201d In those three years, 882 medical providers were convicted. The report characterized their motives as \u201cmainly selfish,\u201d accusing them of committing \u201cthis crime, which poses the greatest threat to the existence of the German National body, purely for financial gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36496\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36496\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nursingclio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/352-3-Medizinalkollegium.png?resize=299%2C405&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"A piece of paper written in German.\" width=\"299\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nursingclio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/352-3-Medizinalkollegium.png?resize=299%2C405&amp;ssl=1 299w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nursingclio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/352-3-Medizinalkollegium.png?resize=534%2C723&amp;ssl=1 534w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nursingclio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/352-3-Medizinalkollegium.png?resize=768%2C1041&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nursingclio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/352-3-Medizinalkollegium.png?w=986&amp;ssl=1 986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A report from the Hamburg Police Authority investigating the physician Dr. Georg Manes on suspicion of abortion. The report details the beginning proceedings for conviction. (352-3 Medizinalkollegium, RG-14.136. Courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/collections.ushmm.org\/search\/catalog\/irn671057\">United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The framing is familiar: providers are characterized not as healthcare workers but as criminals. In January 2025, a Louisiana grand jury indicted Dr. Margaret Carpenter, a New York physician, for prescribing abortion medication via telehealth \u2013 the first criminal charges against a doctor for providing abortion pills since Roe was overturned. Recently confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche has said of abortion pill restrictions, \u201cWe don\u2019t have complete victory yet, but we will have victory, and victory will be soon, and it will be permanent.\u201d<sup><sup><a id=\"post-36494-footnote-ref-12\" href=\"#post-36494-footnote-12\">[13]<\/a><\/sup><\/sup> Weeks later, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton brought felony charges against Maria Rojas, a Houston midwife who spent years serving low-income, uninsured and primarily Spanish-speaking patients. Rojas was jailed for ten days, held on a $1.4 million bond, and stripped of her license before trial. Paxton called her clinic network a \u201ccabal of abortion-loving radicals.\u201d<sup><sup><a id=\"post-36494-footnote-ref-13\" href=\"#post-36494-footnote-13\">[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/sup> Medical professionals in states with abortion bans face criminal prosecution, loss of licensure, and imprisonment.The machinery is the same \u2013 identify the provider, prosecute, then dismantle their professional existence \u2013 even where the underlying law and its severity are not.<\/p>\n<p>On August 5th, the Senate confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as the next director of the CDC. During her confirmation hearing, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) asked Schwartz about her commitment to collecting detailed data on abortions for the Abortion Reporting System, which currently is voluntary. Schwartz reiterated her commitment to abortion tracking. \u201cAbortion surveillance is absolutely a critical component of what the CDC is currently doing. We need to make sure we\u2019re pulling out true abortions and making sure that we\u2019re really having clear case definitions regarding abortions so the data is actually accurate.\u201d<sup><sup><a id=\"post-36494-footnote-ref-14\" href=\"#post-36494-footnote-14\">[15]<\/a><\/sup><\/sup> The Reich\u2019s own surveillance system began that way, a reporting requirement framed as public health necessity, before it became the infrastructure that made prosecution possible.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a claim that history repeats itself on a fixed schedule, or that the United States is destined to follow Nazi Germany\u2019s trajectory to its end. Historical methods cannot predict the future. What they can do is show us what this particular architecture \u2013 incentive paired with exclusion, surveillance paired with prosecution \u2013 was built to accomplish before. It was the lived infrastructure of the Third Reich, and it is the emerging infrastructure of the present United States. Let us recognize it as a structure rather than a series of unconnected policies, and confront what happens when a state decides that women\u2019s bodies belong to the nation.<\/p>\n<section id=\"sources\">\n<h4>Notes<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li id=\"post-36494-footnote-0\">Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk, Instagram Reel, March 24th, 2025 \u200b\u200bhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DHmK3YgSsNf\/ <a href=\"#post-36494-footnote-ref-0\">\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-36494-footnote-1\">Scott MacFarlane and Michael Kaplan, \u201cHouse Speaker Mike Johnson Once Referred to Abortion as a \u201cHolocaust\u201d <em>CBS News. <\/em>October 26, 2023. https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/house-speaker-mike-johnson-abortion-holocaust\/ <a href=\"#post-36494-footnote-ref-1\">\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-36494-footnote-2\">The Federal Archives, Germany. RGB, 1935\/I p. 1035 <a href=\"#post-36494-footnote-ref-2\">\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-36494-footnote-3\">Jonah McKeown, \u201cJD Vance addresses March for Life: We Need a \u2018Culture that Celebrates Life at all Stages,\u201d EWTN News. January 24, 2025. Accessed August 25th, 2026. https:\/\/www.ewtnnews.com\/world\/us\/jd-vance-addresses-march-for-life-we-need-a-culture-that-celebrates-life-at-all-stages?redirectedfrom=cna <a href=\"#post-36494-footnote-ref-3\">\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-36494-footnote-4\">To learn more about this discourse check out the following news articles: Press Release, \u201cRep. Andy Ogles Introduces Anchors Away Act After SCOTUS Ruling on Birthright Citizenship,\u201d June 30, 2026. https:\/\/ogles.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/rep-ogles-introduces-anchors-away-act-after-scotus-ruling-birthright. | Emma Waters, \u201cWhat is the US reproductive tourism industry really selling,\u201d <em>The Hill. <\/em>August 25, 2026. Accessed August 25, 2026. https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/6046000-restrict-us-reproductive-tourism\/ <a href=\"#post-36494-footnote-ref-4\">\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-36494-footnote-5\">Recent News articles on this topic: Sophie Hurwitz, \u201cRepublicans Claim Widespread Food Stamp Fraud. What\u2019s Missing: Hard Evidence,\u201d <em>Mother Jones. <\/em>May 5, 2026. Accessed August 25, 2026. https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/republicans-snap-fraud-welfare-queen\/ Naomi Bethune, \u201cThe \u2018Welfare Queen\u2019 is Back, but she Never Quite Left,\u201d <em>The American Prospect. <\/em>November 14, 2025. Accessed August 25, 2026. https:\/\/prospect.org\/2025\/11\/14\/snap-welfare-queen\/. On the Medicaid Statistics: Judith Solomon, \u201cClosing the Coverage Gap Would Improve Black Maternal Health,\u201d <em>Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, <\/em>July 26, 2021. https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/health\/closing-the-coverage-gap-would-improve-black-maternal-health &amp; Latoya Hill, Alisha Rao, Samantha Artiga and Usha Ranji, \u201cRacial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Health: Current Status and Key Issues,\u201d <em>KFF, <\/em>December 3, 2025. https:\/\/www.kff.org\/racial-equity-and-health-policy\/racial-disparities-in-maternal-and-infant-health-current-status-and-key-issues\/ <a href=\"#post-36494-footnote-ref-5\">\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-36494-footnote-6\">Roger Severino, Jay Richards, Emma Waters, Delano Squires, Rachel Sheffield and Robert Rector, \u201cSaving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years,\u201d <em>The Heritage Foundation. <\/em>January 8, 2026. Accessed July 31, 2026. https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/marriage-and-family\/report\/saving-america-saving-the-family-foundation-the-next-250-years <a href=\"#post-36494-footnote-ref-6\">\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-36494-footnote-7\">To learn more about Dr. Gisella Perl, you can read her memoir, <em>I was a Doctor in Auschwitz, <\/em>published by Lexington Press in 2019. <a href=\"#post-36494-footnote-ref-7\">\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-36494-footnote-8\">\u201cICE Whistleblower: Nurse Alleges \u2018hysterectomies on immigrant women in US\u2019, <em>BBC. <\/em>September 15, 2020. https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-54160638 <a href=\"#post-36494-footnote-ref-8\">\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-36494-footnote-9\">Kate Wells, \u201cSome families afraid of ICE are forgoing medical care. These volunteers help them,\u201d <em>NPR Morning Edition, <\/em>March 2, 2026. https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/02\/nx-s1-5724246\/some-families-afraid-of-ice-are-forgoing-medical-care-these-volunteers-help-them <a href=\"#post-36494-footnote-ref-9\">\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-36494-footnote-10\">L\u00fcder, Karl. <em>The Penal Code for the German Reich of May 15, 1871, as amended on February 26, 1876: together with the Introductory and Amending Law. <\/em>Erlangen: Deichert. https:\/\/www.digitale-sammlungen.de\/de\/details\/bsb11332537 <a href=\"#post-36494-footnote-ref-10\">\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-36494-footnote-11\">RG-14.136, 352-3 Medizinalkollegium (Medical Council).Staatsarchiv Hamburg (Germany). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington D.C. <a href=\"#post-36494-footnote-ref-11\">\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-36494-footnote-12\">Alice Miranda Ollstein and Josh Gerstein, \u201cBlanche assures Anti-Abortion Supporters that Dobbs \u2018will be permanent in every single state\u2019\u201d, <em>Politico. <\/em>August 3, 2026. Accessed August 9, 2026. https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/03\/blanche-pledged-abortion-pill-crackdown-private-call-01023304 <a href=\"#post-36494-footnote-ref-12\">\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-36494-footnote-13\">Press Release, \u201cNo Proof that Texas Midwife Violated Abortion Ban, Court Rules,\u201d <em>Center for Reproductive Rights. <\/em>July 23, 2026. Accessed August 25, 2026. https:\/\/reproductiverights.org\/news\/no-proof-texas-midwife-violated-abortion-ban\/ <a href=\"#post-36494-footnote-ref-13\">\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-36494-footnote-14\">Awra Mahdawi, \u201cRest Assured the New CDC Director thinks \u2018Abortion Surveillance\u2019 is Essential\u201d, <em>The Guardian. <\/em>August 8, 2026. Accessed August 9th, 2026. https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/aug\/08\/cdc-abortion-surveillance-schwartz-hawley <a href=\"#post-36494-footnote-ref-14\">\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/section>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Featured image caption: A Nazi party official gives an award bestowed on German mothers. Mother\u2019s Day, 1943. 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