The losers in the past died of diarrhea aged three.
If you made it as far as wife and kids, you were a winner.
If wife made it as far as the third kid without dying of sepsis, she was an ultra winner.
If you made it as far as wife and kids, you were a winner.
If wife made it as far as the third kid without dying of sepsis, she was an ultra winner.
eg: https://daily.jstor.org/abortion-remedies-medieval-catholic-...
and that's Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess and founder of two monasteries handing out the Ye Olde abortion pills.
It's explained in the article that you linked. Some women did take the medicine to induce an abortion, but they did not do that with Hildegard's aid or assent.
There is a helpful discussion around this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/q88veb/is_this...