Opening Sentence

If it was possible to induce a miscarriage simply by submerging oneself in a very hot bath there would be countless women and girls emerging from a steamy soak with scalded legs and pelvises. Housewives with too many children already, maybe even only one; naïve girls posing as virgins, Catholic virgins confused about the logistics of intercourse; college students, twenty-somethings, thirty-somethings, and the occasional perimenopausal forty-something anticipating no longer requiring birth control too soon.