[[law]] | [[murder]] `+` [[pregnancy]]
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> ***Punishable by 200 lashes***
> [[reconstruction-reliability-low]]: only 2 sources
> ([[dodge-commentary]])
### Zoroastrian
> "...when a man has intercourse with a woman quick with child , whether the milk has already come to her breasts or has not yet come: if mischief follow therefrom, and the child dies, this is a sin that makes the man a *Peshôtanu*." ([[vendidad]]15.1.8)
- This penalty, *peshô-tanva*, consisted of 200 lashes with a horse-whip (see [[darmesteter1898]]plxxxiii for more detail).
### Germanic
> "If anyone should administer a potion to a pregnant woman to produce abortion, and the child should die in consequence, the woman who took such a potion, if she is a slave, **shall receive two hundred lashes**, and if she is freeborn, she shall lose her rank, and shall be given as a slave to whomever we may select." ([[visigothic-code]][6.3.1](https://libro.uca.edu/vcode/vg6-3.htm))
## External Links
[Wikipedia: History of Abortion Law Debate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_abortion_law_debate)