Join the Gotham Center for New York City History at the CUNY Graduate Center for a conversation about The Trials of Madame Restell with author Nicholas L. Syrett in conversation with legal historian Mary Ziegler. In this new biography, Syrett tells the story of one of the most infamous abortionists of the nineteenth century, a tale with unmistakable parallels to the current war over reproductive rights. “Madame Restell,” the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth control, delivered children, and performed abortions for decades in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City.