[Campion]

Well, now this is one we can all shake hands and agree on. Thanks for posting it!

[HarleyD]

Well, now this is one we can all shake hands and agree on.

YIKES!!! I must have posted the wrong article. :O)

Seriously I thought this was an interesting discussion on abortion from a historical Church perspective.

[Terabitten]

Well, now this is one we can all shake hands and agree on. Thanks for posting it!

We all have far more in common than not.

[redgolum]

Somewhere in my pile of books at home I have "The Eyewitness of Ancient Rome". Basically a bunch of old Roman texts thrown together on everything from sound management of a farm to homosexuality and abortion.

There was a practice, which continued well into the Christian Empire, of exposing "unwanted" babies on the sides of mountains. Some groups of Christians made it a practice to rescue these children. The government and elite of the time attacked them for it, since it was "creating to high of an excess population." One rather interesting letter had a detailed account of why a responsible family should only have one son and one daughter, and all else should be killed.

As we know now, the main reason the Germanic hordes (my ancestors) were able to overrun the Western empire was that there were not enough men to defend it.
Killing the next generation of a society leads to its destruction.