She was predeceased by : her parents, Richard T. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of Paula M. Noonan Mehler of Norton, Massachusetts, born in Boston, Massachusetts, who passed away at the age of 80, on April 30, 2023.
Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Paula M. This study offers an important disruption of this grand narrative about abortion in the ancient world while also demystifying the ideological interests and presuppositions of perhaps the most influential advocate of the myth of ancient Christian moral supremacy.It is always difficult saying goodbye to someone we love and cherish. As I show in my analysis, Noonan engages in a series of discursive strategies to cast his grand narrative of Christian opposition to abortion in naturalized and universalized terms considered acceptable in the American political sphere. I also trace the way that Noonan transforms his grand narrative in the wake of the 1973 Roe v. I situate John Noonan in the social world of debates over contraception during the Second Vatican Council and the burgeoning movement to legalize abortion in America in the 1960s and 1970s.
Noonan, Jr., one of the most prominent proponents of this grand narrative. In this work I consider the concerns and interests of John T. I take my analysis a step further by considering how the grand narrative of "absolute" opposition to abortion reveals little about the ancient context and instead speaks more to the present-day concerns and interests of the modern scholars themselves. Whether by talking about abortion to differentiate themselves from others, to slander their opponents, or to assert dominance by defining behavior as deviant, my analysis shows that there is no unified or absolute position on abortion in ancient Christian communities. By analyzing several of the ancient Greek and Latin texts that are considered in these histories, I reveal that ancient Christians used the language of abortion "to think with." That is, abortion was a rhetorical device by which ancient Christians attempted to define the boundaries of their identities and assert their dominance.
Previous scholarship on abortion in the ancient Mediterranean world has often characterized Christians as absolutely opposed to abortion because of concern for the life of the fetus.
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