[Desdemona]

I read somewhere that unborn child murder was legal, but not socially accepted, for a very long time, until medicine exposed how a child forms in the womb. And then the medical establishement moved to make it illegal. I don't know how true that is, but I do remember when I worked in the rare books division of a big med school running across some beautiful ilustrations of fetuses in old, rare medical textbooks. Like from the 17th and 18th centuries.

It's been around forever. That doesn't make it right.

[toenail]

I read somewhere that unborn child murder was legal, but not socially accepted, for a very long time, until medicine exposed how a child forms in the womb.

Recommended reading:

• "Abortion and the Early Church: Christian, Jewish & Pagan Attitudes in the Greco-Roman World" by Michael J. Gorman.
  
  
• John T. Noonan's "An Almost Absolute Value in History" in The Morality of Abortion: Legal and Historical Perspectives.
  
  
• "What the Supreme Court Didn't Know: Ancient and Early Christian Views on Abortion" by Harold O.J. Brown, in The Human Life Review, 1, Number 2, Spring 1975.