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TIL The first known abortion laws appear in the Code of Hammurabi, written in Assyria in 1772 B.C. Assyrian women were punished for aborting their fetuses, but fathers were allowed to kill newborn babies, indicating the law was designed to control the woman’s right to choose rather than to protect the fetus. https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/archaeology-personhood-abortion/
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Damn.
This makes twice today I've had an opportunity to say:
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Even when we're talking about 3000+ years.