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Both ancient Greek thought and ancient Jewish thought are considered to have affected early Christian thought about abortion. According to Bakke and Clarke &Linzey, early Christians adhered to Aristotle's belief in delayed ensoulment, [25] [failed verification] [26] [failed verification] [1] [need quotation to verify] [10] [need quotation to verify] [7] [failed verification] and consequently ...
Other writers say that early Christians considered abortion a sin even before ensoulment. [150] According to some, the magnitude of the sin was, for the early Christians, on a level with general sexual immorality or other lapses; [151] according to others, they saw it as "an evil no less severe and social than oppression of the poor and needy ...
Some scholars have concluded that early Christians took a nuanced stance on what is now called abortion and that at different times, and in separate places, early Christians have taken different stances. [15] [16] [17] Other scholars have concluded that early Christians considered abortion a sin at all stages; although there is disagreement ...
The early Christians are the first on record as having pronounced abortion to be the murder of human beings, for their public apologists, Athenagoras, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix (Eschbach, "Disp. Phys.", Disp. iii), to refute the slander that a child was slain, and its flesh eaten, by the guests at the Agapæ, appealed to their laws as ...
Like me, the majority of Catholics in the United States believe abortion should be legal. In fact, only 1 in 10 Catholics agrees with the bishops’ position that abortion should be illegal in all ...
Donald Trump will address the Faith and Freedom Coalition's "2024 Road to Majority" conference, speaking to a group that advocates for a national abortion ban.
A Christian nationalist blueprint to criminalize abortion is in play “irrespective of who is in the presidency,” according to Skye Perryman, president of nonpartisan democratic advocacy group ...
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.