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By: Mike Aquilina

Mike Aquilina — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:36:11 +0000

That’s nowhere suggested in this piece, Stephen, though this piece is specifically about that motive. Elsewhere (even on this blog) I’ve written extensively about the other motives, especially sex selection.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:31:46 +0000

Certainly the Roman paterfamilias could choose whether to ‘raise up’ a newborn, but to suggest deformity was the primary issue is is deceptive.

By: James Hooper

James Hooper — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:24:52 +0000

Mike, This is actually happening NOW in China, where girls are selectively aborted or abandoned. The disparity in gender balance is already causing major problems and poses a national security threat – because there will be a lot of unmarried men with nothing better to do than wage war.

By: Richard A

Richard A — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:40:59 +0000

Many Christian families, knowing where their neighbors usually abandoned their newborns, rescued and adopted them, raising them as their own. These tended to be girls, as the letter above indicates. Over time, more of the marriageable girls tended to come from Christian families. Of course, our martyrology has its share of young women who would rather die than marry a well-connected Roman ‘gentleman’. I suspect though, that Christianity gained influence in Roman society, at least in part, because the strategy of killing unwilling prospective brides didn’t really do much to meet the ongoing demand for wives.

By: anne

anne — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:08:11 +0000

@brad. forest animals. these same women would never harm a forest animal that would be cruel. Why not carry animals around in little purses
like…. Babies?

By: Mike Aquilina

Mike Aquilina — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:42:30 +0000

Fantastic piece!

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By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:08:58 +0000

Pro-abort feminists hate Palin because she carried that baby to term. These womyn feel actual bloodlust toward that baby and evince it when they see images of him. They consider not killing him in utero a missed opportunity. One truly wonders if they desire to kill him even now as a toddler. Modern day maenads desiring their ritualistic murder by tearing to shreds men, children and forest animals. The absolute antithesis of Mary and worse even than Eve.

By: David

David — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:56:34 +0000

Beautifully said; thank you for this post — a reminder that the only way to save our culture from the self-destructive phase it has entered is Christ the Lord.