Soldiers don't try to win moral arguments by killing, though. Peaceful self-sacrifice has long been the Christian way of doing that. I'm still trying to think that through, but I think we're looking at people who have secretly decided that god is not powerful enough and so have turned to the devil.
Abortion, it turns out, is one of the oldest medical procedures. The Roman doctors did D&C, & were apparently fairly skillful at it. It would have been very painful, and of course they didn't know to sterilize their tools, though as a general rule Romans liked to keep things clean. When I find time, I want to know more...
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Date: 2009-06-04 03:28 pm (UTC)Abortion, it turns out, is one of the oldest medical procedures. The Roman doctors did D&C, & were apparently fairly skillful at it. It would have been very painful, and of course they didn't know to sterilize their tools, though as a general rule Romans liked to keep things clean. When I find time, I want to know more...