Hippocrates also wrote "Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food". Does that mean we should not take medications if we should happen to fall ill?

"Here, take eat of my body" Umm, is this promoting cannibalism?

You have to understand that all great philosophers, including Jesus expoused fantastic ideas, but not every word they said or wrote was meant to be taken literally.

Get the quote correct, please. It's already been corrected for you once.

It would help people if we knew who you where addressing..

She's addressing Sillyak in reference to the original hippocratic oath and how the modern one is quite different.

No, I'm addressing the original poster who has not gotten the Hippocrates quote pertaining to abortion correct yet.

Aah. Well, I knew it had to do with the Hippocrates quote.

Pardon?

Lol Glad I ask.

Sorry, I had the wrong person.

Many African cultures, according to history, seem to be slightly pro-choice. Women used herbs to induce abortion frequently because when a woman didn't get her period, it was thought that she was ill.

Oh, that's a neat note I'd love to see the research of that.

I can't remember where I read it....it may even be African-American women who were enslaved here. I think it was a book about abortion, though.

This whole argument is operating under the silly assumption that a pro choice society is against caring for the weak young and unborn.

I am pro choice. I don't like killing babies. I simply don't believe that they are babies yet when they are aborted.

So in a pro choice society, you can be plenty nurturing and caring, for the mothers and for the babies that are actually alive and hungry.

We don't really know if Jesus or Hippocrates were pro life, as there was not an issue at that point. Of course Jesus would say not to kill babies. That's a silly argument.