Showing posts with label Abortion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abortion. Show all posts

Tertullian on Abortion

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 6:30 AM

"In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier man-killing;  nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth.  That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed."

Tertullian


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John Calvin on Abortion

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 9:30 AM

“...for the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a most monstrous crime to rob it of the life, which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man’s house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.”
John Calvin

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