They can't grasp that miscarriages, which occur for many reasons even in healthy people, have exactly the same emergent medical care needs as abortions. Laws banning abortions usually also interfere with (if not outright block) access to necessary care.
It's a textbook example of how theocracy is wholly incapable of sound public governance.
Until the mid-late 1800s, abortions were legal, and even allowed by the Catholic Church until "quickening" (when you were able to feel the fetus kicking/moving).
Abortion became illegal and started to get "theocratized" for business interests by the American Medical Association for regulatory capture of "physician services" and push out homeopaths and midwives where were the administers of abortion drugs. The AMA lobbied congress and Congress passed the Comstock Act of 1873, and finally made abortion illegal in 1880.
Prior to these, abortion was not only legal, but it was not even considered immoral. It was just a fact of life.
> Until the mid-late 1800s, abortions were legal, and even allowed by the Catholic Church until "quickening" (when you were able to feel the fetus kicking/moving).
No, the Church has never allowed abortion. When gradual ensoulment of the fetus was the dominant scientific theory, the quickening marked the difference between homicide and murder.
jermaustin1|1 year ago
Abortion became illegal and started to get "theocratized" for business interests by the American Medical Association for regulatory capture of "physician services" and push out homeopaths and midwives where were the administers of abortion drugs. The AMA lobbied congress and Congress passed the Comstock Act of 1873, and finally made abortion illegal in 1880.
Prior to these, abortion was not only legal, but it was not even considered immoral. It was just a fact of life.
potato3732842|1 year ago
boredhedgehog|1 year ago
No, the Church has never allowed abortion. When gradual ensoulment of the fetus was the dominant scientific theory, the quickening marked the difference between homicide and murder.