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The ''Journal of Medical Ethics'' declares concerning the [[atheism|atheist]] and [[sadism|sadist]] [[Marquis de Sade]], who was imprisoned a number of times before being committed to an insane asylum:

The ''Journal of Medical Ethics'' declares concerning the [[atheism|atheist]] and [[sadism|sadist]] [[Marquis de Sade]], who was imprisoned a number of times before being committed to an insane asylum:

{{cquote|In 1795 the Marquis de Sade published his La Philosophic dans le boudoir, in which he proposed the use of induced abortion for social reasons and as a means of population control. It is from this time that medical and social acceptance of abortion can be dated, although previously the subject had not been discussed in public in modern times. It is suggested that it was largely due to de Sade's writing that induced abortion received the impetus which resulted in its subsequent spread in western society."<ref>http://jme.bmj.com/content/6/1/7.abstract</ref>}}

{{cquote|In 1795 the Marquis de Sade published his ''La Philosophic dans le boudoir'', in which he proposed the use of induced abortion for social reasons and as a means of population control. It is from this time that medical and social acceptance of abortion can be dated, although previously the subject had not been discussed in public in modern times. It is suggested that it was largely due to de Sade's writing that induced abortion received the impetus which resulted in its subsequent spread in western society."<ref>http://jme.bmj.com/content/6/1/7.abstract</ref>}}

== Women and the history of atheism ==

== Women and the history of atheism ==