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The "Sibylline Oracles," written in [[Alexandria]], Egypt, at around the 2nd–1st centuries B.C., condemned abortion.<ref name=jewishattitudes/>
The "Sibylline Oracles," written in [[Alexandria]], Egypt, at around the 2nd–1st centuries B.C., condemned abortion.<ref name=jewishattitudes/>
Alexandrian philosopher Philo the Jew, despite his Hellenistic influences, denounced the murder of children by their own parents:<ref name=jewishattitudes/>
Alexandrian philosopher [[Philo|Philo the Jew]], despite his Hellenistic influences, denounced the murder of children by their own parents:<ref name=jewishattitudes/>
{{cquote|Again, who can be greater haters of their species than those who are the implacable and ferocious enemies of their own children? Unless, indeed, any one is so foolish as to imagine that these men can be humane to strangers who act in a barbarous manner to those who are united to them by ties of blood. And as for their murders and infanticides they are established by the most undeniable proofs, since some of them slay them with their own hands, and stifle the first breath of their children, and smother it altogether, out of a terribly cruel and unfeeling disposition, others throw them into the depths of a river, or of a sea, after they have attached a weight to them, in order that they may sink to the bottom more speedily
{{cquote|Again, who can be greater haters of their species than those who are the implacable and ferocious enemies of their own children? Unless, indeed, any one is so foolish as to imagine that these men can be humane to strangers who act in a barbarous manner to those who are united to them by ties of blood. And as for their murders and infanticides they are established by the most undeniable proofs, since some of them slay them with their own hands, and stifle the first breath of their children, and smother it altogether, out of a terribly cruel and unfeeling disposition, others throw them into the depths of a river, or of a sea, after they have attached a weight to them, in order that they may sink to the bottom more speedily
because of it.
because of it.