Amanda (Amanda Prestigiacomo)
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
Amanda (Amanda Prestigiacomo)’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She knows herbs, anatomy, labor, breastfeeding, and the rhythms of women's bodies in ways that no formal medical school teaches because there are no medical schools teaching this.
For the vast majority of human history, reproductive healthcare was women's work and women's business.
Today, we're walking through the three big fights about abortion that were never about abortion.
The most recent was about segregation and greed.
The one before that was about medical monopoly.
And the first, which we will turn to now, was about witches.
Well, to be more accurate, it was a war over worldview and world order.
And the battlefield was the witch hunts.
During the European witch hunts from roughly the 1400s through the 1600s, and which spread to colonial New England, tens of thousands of people were executed after being accused of witchcraft.
About 80% of those executed were women.
Many were older women, widows, herbal healers, or women who held positions of community authority.
These women possessed knowledge that wasn't taught or approved by the church.
They knew how to make medicines from plants, how to care for the sick, how to deliver babies, how to treat ailments passed down through generations of experience.
One quarter to one third of those accused of witchcraft were women lay healers and midwives.
Why?
Because these women wielding knowledge and authority outside of the control of the church and state threatened, quite literally, the world order imposed by the church monarchy control.
To be clear, the Catholic Church was not against quasi-medicine for the upper class.
Although modern medicine did not exist, kings and nobles had their own court physicians, some of whom were actually priests.
The issue was control and authority, specifically from whose authority healing was administered.
Male upper-class healing under the control of, and with the credit to, the church was acceptable.
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