If you are going to continue with your charade of being an intellectual you should probably learn the difference between slander and libel.
Why would I, "back up," what I never said. You either have a reading comprehension problem or are an intentional liar. What I wrote was:
A hundred years ago, abortion, as a medical procedure akin to many other kinds of minor operations, was unknown.
I never said, "surgical abortion," was unknown, and you know it. But even if I had, it would have been the minorest of slips and totally irrlevant, just the kind of thing that would matter to a small mind.
That is a distinction without a difference, you said a "minor operation" which is no different from a surgical abortion.
You claimed that abortion "as a medical procedure akin to many other kinds of minor operations, was unknown" a hundred years ago.
I pointed out that surgical abortion was being practiced no later than the 2nd century AD. Since anesthesia and other modern surgical techniques did not exist then, it was a minor operation.
As the method of abortion described by Tertullian is fairly similar to modern abortion, any claim you make that it was unknown a hundred years ago is baseless.
Libertarians are much worse actually than regular leftists/progressives/Democrats or whatever else it pleases them to call thesmelves.
Because Libertarins pretend that they care about morality.
One group says “Evil can be done in the name of the Greater Good” and the other says “Evil can be done in the name of Individual Freedom”.