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Baby deaths link to Roman 'brothel' in Buckinghamshire
bbc. ^ | 25 June 2010

Posted on 06/25/2010 9:54:48 AM PDT by JoeProBono

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The Yewden Villa at Hambleden was excavated in 1912


1 posted on 06/25/2010 9:54:49 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

Look around. This country aborts a million a year, they ain’t all prostitutes... technically.


2 posted on 06/25/2010 9:56:22 AM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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“Tests on the site at Hambleden in Buckinghamshire suggest all died at 40 weeks gestation, very soon after birth.
Archaeologists suspect local inhabitants may have been systematically killing unwanted babies.”

They also discovered the words “Planned Parenthood” chiseled into a ancient stone marker at the site

3 posted on 06/25/2010 9:57:55 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland ("And for that matter what do we REALLY know about HereInTheHeartland?")
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To: JoeProBono

As appalling as the story is ... at least they had the decency to bury them. We discard aborted fetuses as “medical waste”.

SnakeDoc


4 posted on 06/25/2010 9:59:08 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("Shut it down" ... 00:00:03 ... 00:00:02 ... 00:00:01 ... 00:00:00.)
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To: JoeProBono

“infanticide may not have been as shocking in Roman times as it is today”

Only because of Christian morality, a vestige of which exists in the neo-godless. For now.

It was common. The teachings of the Apostles speaks against it, and abortion.


5 posted on 06/25/2010 10:00:25 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

6 posted on 06/25/2010 10:00:51 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: GeronL
"And infanticide may not have been as shocking in Roman times as it is today. Archaeological records suggest infants were not considered to be "full" human beings until about the age of two, said Dr Eyers....."

Yep, what's the difference between then and now? We have so many more prostitutes and we can't bury them all.

7 posted on 06/25/2010 10:01:49 AM PDT by craigster_nc
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“Archaeological records suggest infants were not considered to be “full” human beings until about the age of two”

Anyone who thinks this isn't the next objective of the “progressive” left is a nitwit. EVERYTHING in their agenda so far leads towards the values of ancient pagan society.

We need to keep our powder dry and prepare to defend the little ones. Even if this means a full-on civil war and 50 million dead leftist vermin. It needs to be STOPPED!

8 posted on 06/25/2010 10:03:53 AM PDT by Soothesayer (We are completely ******!)
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To: craigster_nc

Peter Sanger would have been happy there I guess.


9 posted on 06/25/2010 10:04:30 AM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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I remember reading a letter from a Roman soldier in the field to his wife in Rome. He asked how she was doing in her pregnancy and that if the baby was a girl, to kill it, but if a boy, let it live. He said it as casually as telling her how to pay the cable bill.


10 posted on 06/25/2010 10:07:03 AM PDT by LouAvul
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I wonder if, in a thousand years, archeologists will be unearthing Planned Parenthood dumpsters and concluding that Planned Parenthood was a brothel-chain... this would also be investigated by linguists because of the apparent anomaly of the word “parenthood.”


11 posted on 06/25/2010 10:07:07 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: GeronL

Yep, perhaps his ancestors patronized the place.


12 posted on 06/25/2010 10:08:40 AM PDT by craigster_nc
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Pimpus Julius Sanger probably ran the place.


13 posted on 06/25/2010 10:11:11 AM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: SnakeDoctor

So true. We are so much more diabolical in many ways; we use clinical terms as if that could take away the humanity (or lack of).


14 posted on 06/25/2010 10:16:56 AM PDT by Paved Paradise
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What goes around, comes around. Everything old is new again and there is nothing new under the sun. Just make sure no one knows it happened before and you can see anything to anybody. It’s those damned historians we have to be careful of. Don’t write anything down. If you have to make a note, swallow it when you’re done. Can’t let the cat out of the bag.


15 posted on 06/25/2010 10:18:38 AM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: JoeProBono

that should be, “...sell anything to anybody...”.


16 posted on 06/25/2010 10:19:25 AM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: Soothesayer
Killing off the very young (if considered to be "defective" or "undesirable", i.e. unproductive "extra mouths to feed") was the basis of the Planned Parenthood model from its inception. It's a very short and logical step to post-partum infanticide, just as involuntary killing off of the elderly follows closely after voluntary consensual (as we are now seeing in Holland and Scandinavia) euthanasia.

The Left (including the National Socialist variant) are very consistent in their desire to cull the human herd. Historically the main barriers to all this were and still are Judaic and Christian ethics. This is a very old and ongoing war.

17 posted on 06/25/2010 10:26:35 AM PDT by katana (For what is an Irishman ? But a .......)
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To: JoeProBono

Mass infanticide is common in places with considerable prostitution, and was seen as one of the biggest reasons to outlaw prostitution.

However, there is a twist to this. “Those societies that worshiped Baal or the many Baal variations – such as Kronos in Carthage, engaged in the sacrifice of children.”

“In Sparta, the community leaders, called Ephors, inspected newborns for defects. Unwanted females and males with obvious defects were flung into a ravine. The Egyptians also practiced infanticide, leaving the unwanted newborn at the village dump.”

“It was the Romans, however, that established a series of laws regarding abandonment.”

“Abandoned children were often taken by childless couples or speculators that raised such children as slaves, profiting from their sale. Some of these children ended up as prostitutes. Several admonitions made by early Christian Church Fathers against abandonment because at some future time fathers might use prostitutes that might have been their children. This was the sin of incest.”

More information:

http://roman-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/abandonment_infanticide_in_ancient_times

I knew a Vietnam veteran who had the terrible duty to police up dead babies. The prostitute district was just upstream of his military base, and the prostitutes would throw unwanted infants, usually of American soldiers, into the river. Their bodies would wash up on the shores of the base, where he would have to collect them. This soon gave him a nervous breakdown.


18 posted on 06/25/2010 10:32:41 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Two New Episodes of 'Futurama', this June 24th, on Comedy Central)
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To: JoeProBono

Our own little ‘Outpost of Hell’ right in the Central West end of the City of St. Louis. I’ve prayed the rosary in front of that place many times.


19 posted on 06/25/2010 10:35:22 AM PDT by OriginalChristian (I Love My Country, but I Hate my Government...)
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And infanticide may not have been as shocking in Roman times as it is today

This is a stupid statement. Romans were infamous for "exposing" unwanted babies -- just put them out on the curb with the trash (presuming they had trash pickup). If other people wanted the baby because they were childless, or wanted a slave, they could take them home. Otherwise, they died of starvation, or cold.

It is the CHRISTIAN religion and the rise of CHRISTIANITY that made this practice anathema. Remember that. It was the CHRISTIANS that made it unlawful to kill a child. And many years later, it was CHRISTIANS who prohibited child labor. And CHRISTIANS who began to educate children, including females.

The farther away from Christianity our culture gets, the worse it will be for all children and the rest of us too.

20 posted on 06/25/2010 10:42:04 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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