Comments on: Abortion in Ancient Rome (or Why I’m Glad I’m Living in the Present)

By: Allie

Allie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:32:06 +0000

Reesa, how come it’s OK to force a woman to carry to term, but it’s not OK to require someone to be an organ donor after death, force someone to give up one of their kidneys, or even force someone to donate blood to save a dying, already born child (or anyone else, for that matter)?

It’s bodily integrity. It is the woman’s body, to do with as she will. Once the baby is born, the baby has bodily integrity as well as it is a discrete individual, but while it is still part of the woman’s body, SHE has the final say.

Honestly, it’s not right that your stance would require women to carry dead fetuses, fetuses whose defects are incompatible with life, that women would have to forgo treatments to save their own lives in lieu of the unborn, that you’d force women to be at the mercy of anyone who chooses to impregnate them against their will…I don’t know how you can be OK with that.

It is the woman’s choice, to carry or not to carry. Abortions are not lightly undertaken, and I’m very happy we have the right to make our own decisions.

By: Reesa

Reesa — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:13:40 +0000

I dont care what you say. Read a little more into the pregnancy process, see how the baby develops then get back to me on why abortion is ok. Honestly its not right and I dont know how you can be ok with it.

By: Katy

Katy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:13:54 +0000

well, all of you pro-life obviously havent lived in a communist country. i have. where abortions were illegal and abortionists were prosecuted. and STILL thousands and thousands of women had abortions at home and many of them died as a result. try watching 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days by Cristian Mungiu, the film won a palm d’or at Cannes.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:13:26 +0000

Have any of you ever read Won By Love by Norma McCorvey? It’s a good book. I’d encourage you to read it. I’ve been reading the book Manda used in her research as well. (Riddle, John M. Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance )Interesting.

By: Manda

Manda — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:14:22 +0000

Is that directed at me Renee?

By: renee

renee — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:30:48 +0000

If you are opposed to “vast numbers of people trained specifically just to kill people they don’t like,” then why are you opposed to abortion?

By: Bailey

Bailey — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:40:21 +0000

sigh

By: Manda

Manda — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:45:22 +0000

Right, because we don’t, in our society, have vast numbers of people we’ve trained specifically just to kill people the government decides we don’t like or don’t want in power anymore. We don’t have an entire branch of the US military so dedicated to killing other human beings anyway possible that they have trouble functioning in normal civilian life after their time is up. Yeah, all those horrible barbaric practices are gone with the passage of time.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:59:52 +0000

The Romans really liked to watch Gladiator’s kill each other too… I mean they did not exactly have an appreciation for life. They liked blood. They trained to kill and die well.

Of course, that was back then and barbaric practices like that have stopped.

Well, except for abortion and infanticide.

By: Manda

Manda — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:57:17 +0000

Oh! I just realized it didn’t include the website address… Let me try this again:

Tschanz, David W. Herbal Contraception in Ancient Times August 5 2003.
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&pagename=Zone-English-HealthScience%2FHSELayout&cid=1158321476806