Are you serious? It’s mentioned in Paul and Hippocrates. But conception was not understood, nor early fetal development. Until this century women did know when they were pregnant, much less calculate it to the day and hour, use test strips, or mark a calendar.
For example, the term “quickening” applied to the first sensations of life, or morning sickness may have been a first sign of pregnancy. The general attitude, without scientific facts like we have now, was more organic, but a baby in the womb was considered more a “real child” than now (”blob of tissue” was not a phrase used!).
Induced miscarriage was a crime in civilized societies, and not condoned by the medical profession, but there were always people around (midwives commonly or ‘witches’ hence the connection of both to suspicion of evil) willing to help a woman “bring on her flux.”
Pro-aborts have misused a vagueness in understanding now-known medical aspects of conception (fertilization) as a twisted way of arguing that because life was not precisely defined, society was OK with eliminating it.
I am serious.
And dont call me Shirley :)
Thanks man. That was GREAT retort.
Yeah, i read a few sickening articles.
You have given me plenty of ammo, as has Morgana.