PEACEST 2D03 Lecture 5: 5 - Abortion
8 Dec 2015
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The first non-therapeutic medical procedure that human beings ever set out to develop. Ebers papyrus: details some of the first ways of how to do an abortion, used to train medical students at the time. The poor continued to abortion their babies in order to avoid starvation. Members of the wealthy and rich started to use abortion to control the hierarchy, and to hide elicit sexual relationships: from these we get out first laws for abortion. If a woman of her own accord drop that which is in her, they shall prosecute her, they shall convict her, they shall crucify her, they shall not bury her. If she die from dropping that which is in her, they shall crucify her, they shall not bury her. If a woman aborted a child in this age, it would be ending the family hierarchy which is why the code is so violent.
