Protection of the Unborn, in AD 400-600

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Courtesy once more of my Beloved’s habit of reading old books, here is an interesting note on views of abortion. In preChristian Anglo-Saxon society, when a person was killed, the killer had to pay wer-gild in compensation to the victim’s family, or else they would take revenge on the killer. Interestingly, wer-gild also had to be paid for the unborn, and twice as much for an unborn girl as for an unborn boy.
 
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Will you give me the name and author of the book please. 🙂
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As requested:
David Herlihy, ‘Life Expectancies for Women’, in The Role of Women in the Middle Ages, Albany State UP, 1975, p8,

referenced in:
Janemarie Luecke, ‘The Unique Experience of Anglo-Saxon Nuns’, in Medieval Religious Women, vol 2., Shank and Nichols ed.s, Cistercian Publications Inc., 1987.
 
Sounds like a good law to create today. Only adjust it for inflation (how about $100,000 or even more).

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