Drayton in “Taking the Trade – Abortion and Gender Relations in an eighteenth century New England Village,” discuss about the change of abortion perspective in the society and medical technology. In the reading, in the seventeenth century, to avoid abortion, the men should marry their women. However, in the eighteenth century, several technology of abortion instruments had been discovered. The whole reading focus on Sarah experience when she did abortion. Her abortion process was very dangerous, as they inserted an instrument to her uterus to killed the fetus. She was pregnant before married, and to save her family name, the family agreed to kill Sarah’s fetus by abortion.
In this reading, Drayton used Sarah story to show the reader about what