[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

It sounds like infanticide in Medieval England was practiced but was not technically licet.

[Kevmo]

I remember this tidbit coming up in 1972 when the “Age of Viability” was being rabidly discussed just prior to the SCOTUS finding some nonsense right to kill preborn humans in our constitution in Roe vs Wade.

Those links are probably long gone, it was way before the internet.