Anonymous 323424
If you think about it, abortion is actually pretty trad. There's this meme that abortion is the modern woman's sin, yet, it was a normal practice in the past.
>The Stoics believed the fetus to be plantlike in nature, and not an animal until the moment of birth, when it finally breathed air. They therefore found abortion morally acceptable.[19][39]
>Aristotle wrote that, "[T]he line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive."[40] Before that point was reached, Aristotle did not regard abortion as the killing of something human.
>In the Roman Republic and Principate, abortion was punished only when it violated the father's right to make decisions about rearing his offspring.[18]: 3 The Stoics did not view the fetus as a person, and the Romans did not punish abortion as homicide.
The Christian world generally condemned this act but did not really punish it harshly.
>But church councils, such as those of Elvira and Ancyra, which were called to specify the legal groundwork for Christian communities, outlined penalties only for those women who committed abortion after a sexual crime such as adultery or prostitution.
>Several historians have written that prior to the 19th century most Catholic authors did not regard termination of pregnancy before "quickening" or "ensoulment" as an abortion.
Fast forward to modernity:
>Social attitudes towards abortion shifted in the context of a backlash against the women's rights movement.
>Abortion had previously been widely practiced and legal under common law in early pregnancy (until quickening), and it was not until the 19th century that the English-speaking world passed laws against abortion at all stages of pregnancy.
Very interesting…
