You might be forgiven for thinking of abortion as a particularly modern phenomenon. But there's plenty of evidence to suggest that abortion has been a constant feature of social life for thousands of years. The history of abortion is often told as a legal one, yet abortion has continued regardless of, perhaps even in spite of, legal regulation.
Part of the daily life of ancient citizens, abortion also found its way into their art. Publius Ovidius Naso, commonly known as Ovid, was a Roman poet whose collection of worksdescribes the narrator's emotional turmoil as he watches his lover suffering from a mismanaged abortion:
"While she rashly is overthrowing the burden of her pregnant womb, weary Corinna lies in danger of her life. Having attempted so great a danger without telling me. She deserves my anger, but my anger dies with fear." Ovid's concern at first is with the risk of losing his love Corinna, not the potential child. Later, he asks the gods to ignore the"destruction" of the child and save Corinna's life. This reveals some important aspects of historical attitudes towards abortion.
While 21st-century abortion debates often revolve around questions of life and personhood, this was not always the case. The Ancient Greeks and Romans, for example, did not necessarilyEarly thinkers such as St. Augustine , for example, distinguished between the
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