AMBLOSES- A TACITLY ALLOWED ACT OR/AND FELONY IN GREEK POLIS?

Sa？etak Recently, public attention is again challenged by the legal issue of abortion regulation, ie the permissibility of pregnancy termination claim. However, it goes without saying that approach to solving this issue should be addressed more than representing the stand “pro” or “contra”and that it is necessary to look at diff erent aspects, including the legally historic one. Namely, the ways in which different legal systems through history regulated the procedure of pregnancy termination, or as the communities looked at this process then, can contribute more fully to contemplate this issue in contemporary circumstances. Considering the fact that modern societies are democratic, we have come from their exemplars from the world of ancient Greece and the place of the emergence of democratic organization -Athenian polis. In the Athenian polis, the question of abortion also provoked interest, but since it belonged to the sphere of intimate family life, and even more intimate life of women, that interest did not exceed certain limits.The attitude of the community about abortion was tacitly permissible, and the procedure itself was not a felony, but it could have caused judicial proceedings related to the other legal issues such as those related to inheritance law. Still, despite the attitude of communities and the fact that it was not a criminal off ense many sources point that the proceedure was not looked favourably or encouragingly. Philosophical thinkers who saw it as a political means to control the number of residents thought about certain restrictions