Abortion
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
destroying what is conceived · dissolving the conception by drugs · procured abortion
in the texts
Letters
The ruling that procuring or aiding abortion is judged as murder.
She who has procured an abortion by design is liable to the penalty of murder.
And so too the women who give drugs to cause abortion are themselves murderers, as are those who receive the poisons that kill the embryo.
Apologeticum
The termination of unborn life, explicitly forbidden among Christians as a form of murder.
But for us, murder being once for all forbidden, it is not lawful even to destroy what is conceived in the womb, while the blood is still being drawn into a human being.
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber
The act of ending a pregnancy by drugs, raised as a hypothetical and condemned as morally equivalent to harming a born child.
Will you dissolve the conception by drugs?