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Christianity and abortion has a long and complex history. There is scholarly disagreement on how early Christians felt about abortion. Some scholars have concluded that early Christians took a nuanced stance on what is now called abortion, and that at different and in separate places early Christians have taken different stances.
The early Christian work called the Didache (before 100 AD) says: "do not murder a child by abortion or kill a new-born infant." [67] Tertullian, a 2nd- and 3rd-century Christian theologian argued that abortion should be performed only in cases in which abnormal positioning of the fetus in the womb would endanger the life of the pregnant woman.
Christianity and abortion have a long and complex history. Condemnation of abortion by Christians goes back to the 1st century with texts such as the Didache, the Epistle of Barnabas, and the Apocalypse of Peter. In later years some Christian writers argued that abortion was acceptable under certain circumstances, such as when necessary to save ...
The story of Walatta Petros, a 17th-century Ethiopian noblewoman who was later made a saint, shows that Christianity has a complex history with abortion and contraception. A 1721 manuscript ...
[18] [20] Some early Christians believed that the embryo did not have a soul from conception, [15] [22] [23] [24] and consequently, opinion was divided as to whether or not early abortion was murder or ethically equivalent to murder. [17] [21] Early church councils punished women for abortions that were combined with other sexual crimes, as ...
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Faithful America has warned that the anti-abortion Project 2025 framework is “as based in theocracy and the Christian nationalist twisting of faith as it is based in far-right political revenge ...
There are no prohibitions of abortion in the Confucian texts, nor mention of it in the earliest Vedas. While there is no direct mention of abortion in the Bible, Exodus 21:22–24 states that a man who causes a woman to miscarry may be fined. The same passage states in contrast, that murder is punishable by death.