To be free of the flaws of stretchmarks…
This morning I came across the following quote from a book first published in 16 BC:
She who first began the practice of tearing out her tender progeny deserved to die in her own warfare. Can it be that, to be free of the flaws of stretchmarks, you have to scatter the tragic sands of carnage? Why will you subject your womb to the weapons of abortion and give dread poisons to the unborn? The tigress lurking in Armenia does no such thing, nor does the lioness dare destroy her young. Yet tender girls do so—though not with impunity; often shoe who kills what is in her womb dies herself.
Ovid, Amores, 2.14 (selections).
We’ve been making the same arguments for 2025 years.
