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By that standard, most people conceived in the present don't even survive the womb

• defrost 3y ago
  Well, ditto the past - not only were diet and other conditions harsher, the Church was happy to prescribe, mix, prepare and administer abortifacients. eg: https://daily.jstor.org/abortion-remedies-medieval-catholic-nun/ https://daily.jstor.org/abortion-remedies-medieval-catholic-... and that's Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess and founder of two monasteries handing out the Ye Olde abortion pills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9K9PfjRjxM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9K9PfjRjxM
  • Fidelix 3y ago
    This is not true. The medicine was for miscarriages (it was referred as “spontaneous abortion”). It's explained in the article that you linked. Some women did take the medicine to induce an abortion, but they did not do that with Hildegard's aid or assent. There is a helpful discussion around this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/q88veb/is_this_true_did_saint_hildegard_really_prescribe/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/q88veb/is_this...
    • defrost 3y ago
      Read it how you wish, Hildegard is clearly ambiguous on the application and specifically includes the “she aborts an infant which is a danger to her body” which certainly goes much further than, say, Texas.