The issue concerning abortion has always been very important in antiquity and, in particular, in the Roman context, where the legal framework lived in perfect harmony with the social framework and with medical science. It is exactly within this context that different meanings appeared, in both literary and legal production, to define the unborn, which would have been offset by a particularly harsh treatment, from the earliest times, towards the woman, who would have been considered the one and only author to whom the undermining of the paternal desire for filiation would have been charged. In fact, it is not surprising that Plutarch and Dionysius of Halicarnassus had already included procured abortion among the iustae causae repudii. Over time, it would take on public importance, and then be permanently included among the crimina extraordinaria, although the same purpose would continue to persist, i.e. the repression of one of the most odious offences, together with adultery, that women could be guilty of
La tematica relativa all’aborto è sempre stata centrale nell’antichità e, in particolar modo, nel contesto romano, ove l’assetto giuridico viveva in perfetta sintonia con quello sociale e con la scienza medica. È proprio all’interno di siffatto contesto che sono emerse, sia nella produzione letteraria sia in quella giuridica, diverse accezioni per indicare il concepito, alle quali avrebbe fatto da contrappeso – sin da epoca assai remota – un regime sanzionatorio particolarmente duro verso la donna, considerata la sola e unica artefice cui addebitare la compromissione del desiderio paterno di filiazione; né deve stupire che già Plutarco e Dionigi di Alicarnasso avessero fatto rientrare il procurato aborto nel novero delle 'iustae causae repudii'. Esso avrebbe assunto, in progresso di tempo, rilievo pubblicistico, per poi essere stabilmente inserito tra i 'crimina extraordinaria', pur continuando a persistere la medesima finalità, vale a dire la repressione di una delle colpe reputate più odiose, insieme all’adulterio, di cui la donna potesse macchiarsi.
Martina Beggiato (2021). Sulla condizione giuridica del concepito, con speciale riguardo al procurato aborto. DIRITTO@STORIA, XVIII(Tradizione Romana), 1-31.
Sulla condizione giuridica del concepito, con speciale riguardo al procurato aborto
Martina Beggiato
2021
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The issue concerning abortion has always been very important in antiquity and, in particular, in the Roman context, where the legal framework lived in perfect harmony with the social framework and with medical science. It is exactly within this context that different meanings appeared, in both literary and legal production, to define the unborn, which would have been offset by a particularly harsh treatment, from the earliest times, towards the woman, who would have been considered the one and only author to whom the undermining of the paternal desire for filiation would have been charged. In fact, it is not surprising that Plutarch and Dionysius of Halicarnassus had already included procured abortion among the iustae causae repudii. Over time, it would take on public importance, and then be permanently included among the crimina extraordinaria, although the same purpose would continue to persist, i.e. the repression of one of the most odious offences, together with adultery, that women could be guilty ofFile | Dimensione | Formato | |
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