Morbid Fact Du Jour For March 4, 2011
Today’s Unaborted Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
When suspicion of abortion or fornication lay in her background, then an accused witch in 17th century New England stood little chance of survival. When brought to trial in New England, Alice Lake utterly denied that she had practiced witchcraft but confessed that as a single woman she had sinned, become pregnant, and tried to abort the fetus. Although she failed, “yet she was a murderer in the sight of God [and herself] for her endeavors.” This admission of attempted abortion was sufficient to condemn her of witchcraft, and Alice was executed in 1648, leaving four small children.
Culled from: Witchcraze
You know, I really wish that this fact sounded like a horrific bygone of a dark and ignorant age of humanity… but it seems that you can take some people out of the Dark Ages, but you can’t take the Dark Ages out of some people.
