"Abortion has been part of family planning since ancient times, with natural abortifacients being found amongst a wide variety of tribal people and in all our written sources. Our earliest texts contain no mention of abortion or abortion law. When it does appear, it is entailed in concerns about male property rights, preservation of social order, and the duty to produce fit citizens for the state or community. The harshest penalties were generally reserved for a woman who procured an abortion against her husband's wishes, and for slaves who produced abortion in a woman of high status. Religious texts often contained severe condemnations of abortion, recommending penance but seldom enforcing secular punishment. As a matter of common law in England and the United States, abortion was illegal anytime after quickening—when the movements of the fetus could first be felt by the woman. Under the born alive rule, the fetus was not considered a "reasonable being" in rerum natura; and abortion was not treated as murder in English law."
Yes it is, but if it has been incinerating western civilization, it has been smoldering for a very long time. Your ilk seems to want to point the finger at Roe v.Wade 40 plus years ago or, worse, at Democrats since then, especially as recent as 5 years ago. Not that it is a done issue here these days, but it is certainly an ongoing one.
"Abortion has been part of family planning since ancient times, with natural abortifacients being found amongst a wide variety of tribal people and in all our written sources. Our earliest texts contain no mention of abortion or abortion law. When it does appear, it is entailed in concerns about male property rights, preservation of social order, and the duty to produce fit citizens for the state or community. The harshest penalties were generally reserved for a woman who procured an abortion against her husband's wishes, and for slaves who produced abortion in a woman of high status. Religious texts often contained severe condemnations of abortion, recommending penance but seldom enforcing secular punishment. As a matter of common law in England and the United States, abortion was illegal anytime after quickening—when the movements of the fetus could first be felt by the woman. Under the born alive rule, the fetus was not considered a "reasonable being" in rerum natura; and abortion was not treated as murder in English law."
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Abortion is the killing of on'es fellow human being.
ReplyDeleteYes it is, but if it has been incinerating western civilization, it has been smoldering for a very long time. Your ilk seems to want to point the finger at Roe v.Wade 40 plus years ago or, worse, at Democrats since then, especially as recent as 5 years ago. Not that it is a done issue here these days, but it is certainly an ongoing one.
ReplyDeleteRoe v. Wade was a product of the core impetus of feminism: resentment at being the half of the human species with a uterus.
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