Back in the roman times gladiators used to always get prostitutes after battle but they didnt have any contraception, so when they finished in them how come the didnt get pregnant all the time? Did they have abortions or pull out? Thanks in advance
The Roman poet Ovid (1st century BCE/CE) refers to abortion in one of his poems Amores 2.13 [Loeb translation]:
Corinna, rashly seeking to rid her heavy bosom of its load, lies languishing in peril of life. Surely for trying without my knowledge a course so filled with danger she merits my anger; but my anger falls before my fear. And yet, either 'twas I that caused her trouble - or so I believe; with me, what might be oft is held for truth. ...
And again in Amores 2.14 [Loeb translation]:
Of what avail to fair women to rest free from the burdens of war, nor choose with shield in arm to march in the fierce array, if, free from peril of battle, she suffer wounds from weapons of her own, and arm her unforeseeing hands to her own undoing?
She who first plucked forth the tender life deserved to die in the warfare she began. Can it be that, to spare your bosom the reproach of lines, you would scatter the tragic sands of deadly combat? ...
Ah, women, why will you thrust and pierce with the instrument, and give dire poisons to your children yet unborn? ...
But may the words I am saying to you be carried away on the winds of heaven, and may my ominous speech have no ill end! Ye gods of mercy, grant she has sinned this once in safety, 'tis all I ask; for a second fault let her bear her punishment!
hi! you'll find some more info in the FAQ