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Other writers say that early Christians considered abortion a sin even before ensoulment. [31] According to some, the magnitude of the sin was, for the early Christians, on a level with general sexual immorality or other lapses; [4] according to others, they saw it as "an evil no less severe and social than oppression of the poor and needy". [32]
There has always been much debate over the 'Christian views on suicide', with early Christians believing that suicide is sinful and an act of blasphemy. Modern Christians do not consider suicide an unforgivable sin (though still wrong and sinful) or something that prevents a believer who died by suicide from achieving eternal life. [1] [2] [3]
[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 ...
In Theravada Buddhism, for a monk to so much as praise death, including dwelling upon life's miseries or extolling stories of possibly blissful rebirth in a higher realm in a way that might condition the hearer to die by suicide or to pine away to death, is explicitly stated as a breach in one of highest vinaya codes, the prohibition against ...
Other writers say that early Christians considered abortion a sin even before ensoulment. [148] According to some, the magnitude of the sin was, for the early Christians, on a level with general sexual immorality or other lapses; [149] according to others, they saw it as "an evil no less severe and social than oppression of the poor and needy ...
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.
Abortion is far more complex than the false binary choice between one or the other. To ratify abortion on demand does not exhibit God’s love fully any more than does prohibiting all abortion.
Every year, about one million people die by suicide, which is a mortality rate of sixteen per 100,000 or one death every forty seconds. [2] Suicidologists believe that suicide is largely preventable with the right actions, knowledge about suicide, and a change in society's view of suicide to make it more acceptable to talk about suicide.