This is a much longer story than the 70s gets you to, and "always been against it" is certainly a reading of the past that some prefer these days, but... > The

This is a much longer story than the 70s gets you to, and "always been against it" is certainly a reading of the past that some prefer these days, but... > The Leges Henrici Primi, written c. 1115, treated pre-quickening abortion as a misdemeanor, and post-quickening abortion as carrying a lesser penalty than homicide. "Quickening", a term often used interchangeably with "ensoulment" or "animation", was associated with the first movement of the fetus in utero. This movement is generally felt by women sometime in the third to fifth month of pregnancy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_abortion#Christianity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_abortion#Christiani... (The fun sectarian conflicts back then look much, much wilder from today's viewpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism )