Rome Quotes
A dreadfully deformed child shall be killed.
This is the earliest surviving attempt of the Romans to formulate a legal code.
Rome, The Twelve Tables, 451 BC
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
Churches are political organizations too and are subject to the forces of their membership. In the case of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1971 they passed resolutions to assure the right of a woman to have an abortion to protect her health. The position on abortion changed steadily thereafter to even pass Constitutional amendments to ban abortions except to save the life of the mother. See {614356},54122, {614358}, {614359}, {614360}, {614361} for the dynamic history of the change.
In most parts of the country, if the legislators did not carve out the exceptions for rape incest and danger to the life of the mother, they would lose the majority of their support as most Americans who oppose the freedom of abortion that existed after Roe v. Wade, but really do not view abortion in the early trimester as murder. They just think that the regulation should be greater than it is.
Though a great early science, he was ignorant of the many non-genetic factors that could cause deformities in children ranging from nutritional deficiency to improper delivery techniques. Even in the genetic area he had no inkling of mutations where deformities develop and have NOTHING to do with either parent’s genetic history. Last, he did not realize that a large proportion of all pregnancies abort before the mother even realizes that she was pregnant.
At the time in Britain, women who gave birth to out-of-wedlock children were not only disgraced, but also disciminated agains them in almost every phase of life. Poor single women would be fired by their employers even if it was the employer who had impregnated her. Few would hire a woman who had given birth to a bastard child. As a resukt of this terrible pressure on women, many would murder their own new-born child, and others would "leave it to others".
Queen Boudicca of the Iceni tribe had revolted in Roman Britain. The Romans where particularly harsh in putting down revolts but under Emperor Nero and Caligula after him, they sunk to the deepest of barbarities,
Rome (Italian and Latin: Roma [ˈroːma] (listen)) is the capital city and a special comune of Italy (named Comune di Roma Capitale), as well as the capital of the Lazio region. The city has been a major human settlement for almost three millennia. With 2,860,009 residents in 1,285 km2 (496.1 sq mi), it is also the country's most populated comune. It is the third most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. It is the centre of the Metropolitan City of Rome, which has a population of 4,355,725 residents, thus making it the most populous metropolitan city in Italy. Its metropolitan area is the third-most populous within Italy. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber. Vatican City (the smallest country in the world) is an independent country inside the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city; for this reason Rome has sometimes been defined as the capital of two states.
