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==Wars==
==Wars==
Charles V tried to stop the spread of [[Lutheranism]]. In 1531, the Schmalkaldic League, an alliance of Protestant princes, was formed to defend the Protestant states against possible Catholic attack. In 1544, Charles sent armies against the German princes, but the [[Peace of Augsburg]] in 1555 ultimately gave each German prince the right to choose the religion for his state by a principle called ''[[cuius regio, eius religio]]'' (whose region, his religion). Most of the southern German princes chose Catholicism, the northern princes Lutheranism.
Charles V tried to stop the spread of [[Lutheranism]]. In 1531, the Schmalkaldic League, an alliance of Protestant princes, was formed to defend the Protestant states against possible Catholic attack. In 1544, Charles sent armies against the German princes, but the [[Peace of Augsburg]] in 1555 ultimately gave each German prince the right to choose the religion for his state by a principle called ''[[cuius regio, eius religio]]'' (whose region, his religion). Most of the southern German princes chose Catholicism, the northern princes Lutheranism.
== Martin Luther condemned abortion ==
[[Image:Baby.jpg|right|thumb|200px|An unborn child in the womb. ]]
[[Martin Luther]] (November 10, 1483 - February 18, 1546) was one of the most important leaders in [[Christian]] and [[Germany|German]] history. An Augustinian monk, priest, and professor of theology, he unintentionally launched the [[Protestantism|Protestant Reformation]] and founded the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran Church]].
While lecturing on Genesis 25:1–4, Martin Luther declared:
<blockquote>God wanted to teach and attest that the beginning of children is wonderfully pleasing to Him, in order that we might realize that He upholds and defends His Word when He says: "Be fruitful." He is not hostile to children as we are. ... How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God!<ref>{{cite book |last1=Luther |first1=Martin |date=1540–1541 |chapter=Lecture on Genesis Chapter Twenty-Five |editor1-last=Pelikan |editor1-first=Jaroslav |editor2-last=Hansen |editor2-first=Walter A. |title=Luther's Works, Vol. 4 |publisher=Concordia Publishing House |location=United States |page=[https://archive.org/details/luthersworksv4c21-25unse/page/304/ 304] |url=https://archive.org/details/luthersworksv4c21-25unse/ |language=English |publication-date=1964}}</ref>
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Luther wrote a pamphlet in which he distinguished between women who suffer miscarriages through no fault of their own and "those females who resent being pregnant, deliberately neglect their child, or go so far as to strangle or destroy it."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Luther |chapter=Comfort for Women Who Have Had a Miscarriage |first1=Martin |editor1-last=Wiencke |editor1-first=Gustav K. |editor2-last=Lehmann |editor2-first=Helmut T. |title=Luther's Works, Vol. 43 |date=1542 |publisher=Fortress Press |publication-date=1968 |location=United States |pages=[https://archive.org/details/luthersworksv43p2unse/page/243/ 243–250] |url=https://archive.org/details/luthersworksv43p2unse/ |language=English}}</ref> And in a 1544 letter, Luther strongly condemned a woman who had been a guest in his house for, among other reasons, asking his maid to "jump on her body in order to kill the fetus."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Luther |first1=Martin |date=1544 |chapter=Letter concerning Rosina von Truchsess |editor1-last=Karant-Nunn |editor1-first=Susan C. |editor2-last=Wiesner-Hanks |editor2-first=Mary E. |title=Luther on Women: A Sourcebook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BE8yAl6K0tQC |language=English |publication-place=United Kingdom |publisher=Cambridge University Press |publication-date=2003 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=BE8yAl6K0tQC&pg=PA223 223] |isbn=9780521658843 |quote=Finally, she drew a number [of men] to her, and became pregnant by one of them. She asked my maid to jump on her body in order to kill the fetus.}}</ref>
==Jews==
==Jews==