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Posted by Paul Younan (Guest) - Thursday, August 26 2004, 23:47:53 (CEST)
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"Interestingly, ancient Assyrian laws attest to the abhorrence of abortion. According to those laws, a woman guilty of an abortion was condemned to be impaled on stakes. Even if she lost her life in the abortion procedure, she was still to be impaled as an expression of the community's repudiation of such an abominable practice." (J. Carl Laney, Bibliotheca Sacra, Oct.-Dec. 1982, p.346)

Middle Assyrian Law (circa 1400 BC), made abortion a capital crime on the level of high treason against the king. The offending woman was to be impaled and denied sacred burial.

The Code of Hammurabi prescribed the death penalty for rape, incest, abortion and adultery.

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