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Abortion
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On the early
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Here are some quotes from the early church about the subject of abortion:
- Mathetes (130) writes:
- Epistle to Diognetus 5 - Christians follow the
customs of their native lands... They marry and have children but they never
have abortions.
- Tertullian (200) writes:
- Apology 9 - Christians do not sacrifice young,
old, or even destroy the fetus in the womb.
- Nations 1.15 - Christians do not
kill infants before or after birth.
- Treatise of the Soul 1.25 - Heretics
maintain that the soul is not conceived in the womb. They maintain that the soul
is deposited much later after conception. Christians teach Abortion is Murder
- Treatise of the
Soul 1.37 - The law of Moses, indeed, punishes with due penalties the man who
shall cause abortion. Christians teach the soul is imparted at conception.
- The Didache 2 - You shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill them when born.
- Epistle of Barnabas 19:21 - Thou shalt not murder a child by abortion, nor
again shalt thou kill it when it is born.