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| Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:54PM | | | | Southern Baptists and Abortion | Tags: Baptists, abortion, fundamentalists, Augustine, Acquinas, Billy Graham, W.A. Criswell, Paul Weyrich, immaculate conception
| | | | In male dominated cultures there has always been birth on demand. A woman’s primary duty was to provide a male heir for her husband. If she did not, her husband was free to use another woman for the purpose. That woman had no will of her own. (Genesis 16) It wasn’t rape because the woman had no rights.
In wars, the victors often killed everyone who wasn’t useful as a slave and Moses ordered Hebrew warriors to do so. Neither pregnant women nor their fetuses were spared. However, warriors could take virgin girls for personal use. (Numbers 31) A woman’s only alternative to birth on demand was abortion or suicide, often the same thing.
Chinese folklore mentions induced abortions in 5000 BC but the earliest recorded... | | | | | |
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