“How many of those lives were extinguished to save their mothers life or avoid permanent severe disability? We now know thanks to Lord Alton, who got a reply in parliament: the truth is a shocking 143 cases since 1968 fell into this category. That is less than 0.006 percent!”
The Didache (“The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles”) ca 110 AD. Thou shalt not murder a child by abortion. (2:2)…The Way of Death is filled with people who are…murderers of children and abortionists of God’s creatures. (5:1-2)
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Letter of Barnabas, circa 125: You shall not kill either the fetus by abortion or the new born
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Athenagoras the Athenian (To Marcus Aurelius), ca 150 AD: “We say that those women who use drugs to bring on abortion commit murder, and will have to give an account to God for the abortion…, [For we] regard the very fœtus in the womb as a created being, and therefore an object of God’s care… (# 35).
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Clement of Alexandria: (circa 150 – 215 AD) Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, if order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings. Paedagogus, 2
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Tertullian circa 160-240 AD: For us, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier man-killing; nor does it matter when you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to birth. That is a man which is going to be one: you have the fruit already in the seed. Apology 9:6 …
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Minucius Felix (180 – 225 AD): Some women take medicines to destroy the germ of future life in their own bodies. They commit infanticide before they have given birth to the infant (Octavious (30, 2))
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St. Basil the Great (330 – 379 AD): The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed. In this case it is not only the being about to be born who is vindicated, but the woman in her attack upon herself; because in most cases women who make such attempts die. The destruction of the embryo is an additional crime, a second murder, at all events if we regard it as done with intent. The punishment, however, of these women should not be for life, but for the term of ten years. And let their treatment depend not on mere lapse of time, but on the character of their repentance. Letter 188:2
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St. Ambrose: (339 to 397 AD) The poor expose their children, the rich kill the fruit of their own bodies in the womb, lest their property be divided up, and they destroy their own children in the womb with murderous poisons. and before life has been passed on, it is annihilated. Hexaemeron”, (5, 18, 58)
Source: geneveith.com
Sex-selective abortion has critically changed the debate. It is now a discussion of women’s rights vs.…women’s rights; a woman’s rights to a kind of life vs. a woman’s right to any kind of life at all. They stand in direct conflict, and which value will women’s activist groups, politicians, international organizations, parents, ethicists, and individuals choose to preserve and protect?…
Seriously, if you aren’t following me on twitter, you’re missing out.
Yes, they are indeed.
Many women who demand the right to an abortion say, “It’s my body, it’s my choice.” Let me make one thing very clear to you today - my mother’s choice was my death sentence. It is not only a woman’s body we are discussing in an abortion. It is the entire flesh and blood of someone just like me.
- Sarah Smith, abortion survivor (her twin brother was aborted through a D&C abortion, but she miraculously survived)
Source: fight-forlife
…that children are a curse—some even say a “parasite”—that threatens to harm the future well being of the expectant parents. The truth is that children are a blessing and always represent the long-term hope of the future. As Carl Sandburg said, “A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.” We cannot destroy them without diminishing the worth of women.
“I have learned from my earliest medical education that human life begins at the time of conception…I submit that human life is present throughout this entire sequence from conception to adulthood and that any interruption at any point throughout this time constitutes a termination of human life…I am no more prepared to say that these early stages represent an incomplete human being than I would be to say that the child prior to the dramatic effects of puberty…is not a human being. This is human life at every stage.”
— Dr. Alfred M. Bongioanni, professor of pediatrics and obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania
I consider myself ‘pro-choice’, and I think when you lay down with some one, you have made your choice. I wish others would join me in this so we could all understand that when they say ‘pro-choice’, they really mean second chance.
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