All this talk about babies and religion got me thinking

[kimba1]

I asking has the church always thought the life of the unborne child valuable? I've books of the past and the high infant mortality in those days tend bring a culture of prefered indifference about the death of a child. Meaning ths may not be a matter of religion but what the present day church prefers.

I'll go even further and ask when abortions became known did the church  had a problem of a process that rid the world of children of unwed mothers.

See what happens when I'm off the web for a month

[BT]

I don't know about when abortions came about, i would assume the medical technology was around in one form or another before even the church came into being.

But i also know that the church has been involved with orphanages for almost as long, so i disagree that they held an indifferent attitude to children in need.
 

[kimba1]

But were they refuges for the kids or dumping grounds? The past was pretty harsh place for children.

[Plane]

Predates Christ as a problem.

......I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art....


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath