So abortion became a solution for many women who simply wanted the kind of equality they couldn’t have any other way. If men could sleep around for fun, why couldn’t they? that promulgated it and enforced behavioral norms on women, even while the industrialization and modernization of the First World gave women more leisure time, better educational opportunities, and work outside the home, turned for many women into what they saw as a prison. This biological fact, and the religious, societal, and cultural bonds in the U.S. It’s the women who have to deal with pregnancy from a man who has moved on to other pastures. Biologically, men have always had it easier, in that men can spread seed, commit adultery, fornication, and generally be a bunch of promiscuous cads with multiple women (in one night!), with little more risk than getting a nasty case of the clap, or some other STD. Then, almost suddenly, the sexual revolution hit, and sexual promiscuity became “liberation” for women. Many Christians were silent or indifferent about the practice, though the Roman Catholic Church has always maintained that the termination of any pregnancy is sin, for centuries also banning any kind of medical contraception.

In ancient Rome, Christians would take the tiny babies from the refuse and either try to raise them, or give them a proper burial.Īs the medical aspects of abortion became less fraught with certain death for the mother, this became a more popular method of dealing with unwanted, deformed, or dangerous pregnancies. Some societies still today dispose of unwanted infants, with boys being more preferred than girls it’s a real problem in India. In ancient days, there was a practice of abandoning infants in the city dump, as the Romans did.

His Seed by Steve Berman