While the modern church has developed stringent guidance on abortions in response to advances in medicine, such clear criticism of the process was not expressed in the medieval period. As a healer Hildegard prized the health of the people she assisted above all, and here she is treating a critical situation where a woman may need to ‘abort an infant which is a danger to her body’. Even today this view may be seen by some as radical.
Hell yeah Hildegard
