On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed the constitutional right to abortion.

50% of the proceeds from this run of prints will be donated to abortion funds that are dedicated to helping people secure the abortion care that they need.

Image references:

- A scold's bridle - a device used to publicly humiliate, torture, and silence the wearer to prevent them from speaking, often used on women of the lower classes "whose speech was deemed riotous or troublesome" - overgrown with medicinal plants

- Queen Anne's Lace (wild carrot), an implantation inhibitor which prevents a fertilized egg from implanting and developing into a pregnancy

- Gossypium herbaceum, or cotton root, which is used as an herbal abortifacient

- Raspberries, whose leaves strengthen the uterus and improve labor, prevent excessive bleeding after childbirth, and ease premenstrual symptoms

- Pomegranate, which promotes fertility and healthy pregnancy

- Weeping eyes of the Mother of Seven Sorrows

- “Hell hath no fury” - the first half of an idiom adapted from a line in William Congreve’s play, The Mourning Bride (1697). The entire idiom reads “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”* but I leave the second half out for a couple reasons - one of which being that this language (albeit centuries old) represents a universal rage as being felt only by cisgendered women. All bodies are at risk of serious harm in our country; the second reason being that line is written of a “woman” who has been “rejected in love,” once again confining this hot rage to a scenario in which it can only be applied to romantic denial of a man’s love - and that’s simply not the issue.

*The original line from the play reads “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”