I just read this and want you all to read it too: "What 'Health of the Mother' Means"

[get the red out]

2. Some Quotes from religious figures re: women

The Republican Party is intertwined with the religious extremists of this country, people who would find very little wrong with the essence of the quotes below, in that light I am never shocked at their denial of women's rights in any form, even if that denial of rights leads to death, they simply do not care.

St. Augustine of Hippo: What difference is it in a wife or mother? It is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any woman, I fail to see what use a woman can be to a man if one excludes the function of bearing children.

Martin Luther: If they (women) become tired or even die, that does not matter. Let them die in childbirth. That is what they are there for.

St. Tertullian: Do you not know that you are each an Eve? The sentence of god on this sex of your lives in this age, the guilt must of necessity live too. You are the devil's gateway. You are the unsealer of the forbidden tree: You are the first desserter of the divine law. You are she who persueded him whom the devil was not valiant to attack. You destroyed so easily god's image, man. On account of your desert even the son of man had to die.


Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/religion-spirituality/717600-outrageous-quotes-christians-about-women-grace.html#ixzz2AFLtCwQY