On behalf of the Middle Ages, I object to characterizing Gosnell’s human abattoir as “medieval”: in the Middle Ages, every country the length and breadth of Christendom was what would now be called “pro-life”. Pre-Columbian Mexico and the cult of Molech in the ancient Near East look like the relevant historical precedents, rather than anything Medieval.
At least pre-Columbian Mexico showed some measure of respect to some of their sacrificial victims.
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“every country the length and breadth of Christendom was what would now be called “pro-life”
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Except for all the abandoned babies whose families couldn’t or wouldn’t feed them...some exposed, some put into little revolving receptacles at orphanages. Some few even lived. Witness the Italian surnames Esposito, Abbandonato.