it's unclear even what it ever meant (except for the most literal meaning) """ The interpreted AD 275 fragment of the oath contains a prohibition of abortion

it's unclear even what it ever meant (except for the most literal meaning) """ The interpreted AD 275 fragment of the oath contains a prohibition of abortion that is in contradiction to original Hippocratic text On the Nature of the Child, which contains a description of an abortion, without any implication that it was morally wrong,[16] and descriptions of abortifacient medications are numerous in the ancient medical literature.[17] The oath's stance on abortion was unclear even in the ancient world where physicians debated whether the specification of pessaries was a ban on simply pessaries, or a blanket ban on all abortion methods. """