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History of Christian thought on abortion. 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 ...
An abortion-rights campaigner in Spain voicing disagreement with the Catholic view on abortion during the Pope's visit. 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.
Following the 1968 publication of Humanae Vitae, an encyclical by Pope Paul VI that expressly forbade abortion and most methods of birth control [9] and that sowed controversy within the church over its restatement of the prohibition on birth control, [10] Catholic bishops in the United States started to stress anti-abortion views as a central facet of Catholic identity and preached against ...
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 ...
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 ...
Religion and abortion. Numerous religious traditions have taken a stance on abortion but few are absolute. These stances span a broad spectrum, based on numerous teachings, deities, or religious print, and some of those views are highlighted below. [1][2] People of all faiths and religions use reproductive health care services. [3]
Here’s why. More than 30 Christian church leaders call for SC to keep abortion legal. Here’s why. Rev. Alston Lippert and Rev. Ginger Barfield. August 8, 2022 at 2:14 PM. Tracy Kimball ...
The abortion law in Poland today ("Law on family planning, protection of the human fetus and conditions for legal abortion") was enacted in January 1993 as a compromise between both camps. It is widely believed that the Catholic Church in Poland is the main obstacle to the liberalization of abortion laws and the reintroduction of sex education ...