Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Oedipus Was Rescued From Abandonment This Way
Who's to say the Dark Ages were completely depraved? They used to have a way for women to abandon their babies safely, and now they are doing it again. And the Greeks did it in a slightly different way--they had these pots in lonely places where you could drop off the unwanted infant and sometimes it would be picked up before exposure killed him or her.The method in the 1200s was called a foundling wheel, one of the originals of which is pictured above. Beats leaving it in a dumpster, or in the Tiber. I have been a proponent of this method of very late term, non-fatal 'abortion' for about 20 years now. Good to see I wasn't alone.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 8:06 AM 
