Ms. Demirkol is a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington. She received her BA degree in sociology at Galatasaray University and her MA degree in Turkish Studies at Sabancı University. Her project explores the impact of pronatalist policies and the evolving medical landscape on Istanbulite women in the late Ottoman Empire. Focusing on the nineteenth-century transformation of abortion from a private practice to a public, medically regulated concern, she examines how women navigated this shift as both practitioners and patients. Exploring the consequences of being deprived of tools and agents for abortion, her research probes the social and material sources women employed to contend with newfound conditions of marginality and criminality. The study seeks to comprehend the corporeal and spatial dimensions of women’s reproductive health experiences in this evolving context.