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To: gamesmistress who wrote (24028)	8/20/2012 12:03:17 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 85487

Of course not; the torah was written by men. However, BC was free and available to most women of the time; labor not included. Prolly not as effective as The Pill. Actually, there were many other kinds of birth control used in Bible times. The Ebers Papyrus of Egypt, which dates from 1500 BC, lists a number of barrier methods. Here is a translation of one of them: “To make a woman not become pregnant for one year, two years or three years, acacial leaves are ground fine with honey, lint is moistened therewith and placed in her vulva.” Eerdman’s Handbook to the Bible places the Hebrews’ time in Egypt (between Joseph and Moses) from 1700-1300 BC. It is impossible, given the Israelites’ presence in Egypt during the same period that this papyrus was written, that the Israelites could have been completely unfamiliar with the methods set forth in this papyrus. And yet the Bible says nothing whatsoever about any of these Egyptian remedies. The only time a method of birth control is mentioned is the story of Onan. Let’s take closer look at that story. patheos.com Free BC for all women is also an ancient American practice and included what I like to call "the free morning after pill". Blue cohosh, traditionally used for birth control by Native Americans, contains at least two abortifacient substances: one mimics oxytocin, a hormone produced during childbirth that stimulates the uterus to contract, and a substance unique to blue cohosh, caulosaponin, also results in uterine contractions. Midwives today may use blue cohosh in the last month of pregnancy to tone the uterus in preparation for labour. The completely unrelated but similarly named black cohosh also has estrogenic and abortifacient properties and was often combined with blue cohosh to terminate a pregnancy. listverse.com By "incompetent companies that should have gone thru bankruptcy in the usual way", do you mean GM records its highest profit ever: $7.6 billion Thu, Feb 16, 2012 news.yahoo.com ?