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“Prevention of birth is premature murder”
—Tertullian, The Christian Defence
As quoted in Golden Treasury of Patristic Quotations
“It makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth that one destroys. The future man is a man already: the whole fruit is present in the seed.”
—Tertullian, The Christian Defence
As quoted in Golden Treasury of Patristic Quotations
“Some go so far as to take potion, that they may insure barrenness, and thus murder human beings almost before their conception. Some, when they find themselves with child through their sin, use drugs to procure abortion, and when (as often happens) they die with their offspring, they enter the lower world laden with the guilt not only of adultery against Christ but also of suicide and child murder.”
—Jerome, Letters to Eustochium
As quoted in Golden Treasury of Patristic Quotations
“Those also who give drugs causing abortions are murderers themselves, as well as those who receive the poison which kills the fetus.”
—Basil the Great, Letters to Amphilochius
As quoted in Golden Treasury of Patristic Quotations
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