[ealgeone]

No need to. Rome's claim is not accurate on this issue as demonstrated.

Rome likes to color it's history on this issue and a lot of other issues.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I'm always curious as to where you get your misinformation from. Who was it this time, the experts at "Catholics [sic] for Choice^TM"?

My dear ealgeone, I think we have been friends good enough, and long enough, for me to say:

Your ignorance is showing.

You should check out THE truly comprehensive (in the historico-academic sense) study of the legal and moral history of abortion through the centuries, written by John Noonan, and then get back to me:

The Morality of Abortion: Legal and Historical Perspectives