(October 6, 2014 at 4:37 pm)C4RM5 Wrote:(October 6, 2014 at 4:35 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Carm, going to press you on a straight answer again. Should it be legal for a rape victim to abort? Yes or no.
The way the system is currently set up, no I think the child should be born then shown to the mother so she can decide to murder an innocent life that came into existance as a result of the mistakes of others.
Oh, you mean like....
http://www.faqs.org/childhood/A-Ar/Ancie...-Rome.html
Quote:In the Greek world, births most probably took place in the women's quarters, exclusively in the presence of women and with the help of a midwife. Giving birth could be hazardous to the mothers due in part to inadequate standards of HYGIENE, in part because most first-time mothers had barely passed PUBERTY. To announce the gender of a live birth, the family decorated the doorway with wool to designate a girl, and with a wreath of olive for a boy. The household head, the kyrios, had the right to accept the children and could reject them based on gender, size of the family, physical deformity or frailty, economic considerations, legitimacy, or because they were the offspring of slaves. Disposal was arranged through exposure, a process that involved abandoning an infant to its death to the elements. This practice, rather than simply killing the infant, may have developed because it freed the household from bloodguilt, or because parents truly believed that they were placing their exposed infants in the care of the gods. Exposure remains a topic of continuing controversy. In Sparta, exposure of physically weak or sickly infants was demanded by law and determined by the elders of the tribes rather than the household head.
We've advanced a bit since the Greeks. We can now determine if a fetus is deformed earlier on. This is called "progress."
