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That is probably because in those days a woman did not kill the baby in her womb.......Life may have been more precious then it is now.......
Wrong.
There is evidence that abortion was common in ancient Rome; in ancient Egypt, it was practiced for more than two and a half thousand years before the birth of Christ.
The history of abortion, according to anthropologists, dates back to ancient times. Historically, pregnancies were terminated through a number of methods, including the administration of abortifacient herbs, the use of sharpened implements, the application of abdominal pressure, and other techniques.
Abortion timeline:
2600 BC –First recorded recipe for an abortifacient drug.
1850 BC –Egyptians record recipe for contraceptive pessaries, one made from crocodile dung.
4th Century AD –St.Augustine lays down Catholic dogma sanctioning abortion up to 80 days for female fetus and up to 40 days for male fetus.
13th Century AD -St.Thomas Aquinas states Catholic dogma justifying sexual intercourse only for procreation.
1564 AD -Italian anatomist, Fallopius, discoverer of Fallopian tubes, publicizes condoms as anti-venereal disease devices.
1588 – Pope Sixtus forbids all abortions.
1591 – Pope Gregory XIV rescinds Pope Sixtus’ edict against abortion.
1803 – Great Britain makes abortion a misdemeanor.
But don't worry; the bible doesn't have much to say about rape, either; and in fact it implicitly condones slavery.
Apparently, God was too busy focusing on minutiae- such as preventing people from eating ospreys and wearing polyester- to really pay that much attention to the pressing human rights issues of the day.