**Didache (first century) **
**“You shall not slay the child by abortions.” (Didache 2:2) **
**St. Clement of Alexandria(223 AD) “Those who use abortifacients commit homicide.” **
“. . . if we would not kill off the human race born and developing according to God’s plan, then our whole lives would be lived according to nature. Women who make use of some sort of deadly abortion drug kill not only the embryo but, together with it, all human kindness.” ~ Clement of Alexandria, priest and the “Father of Theologians” (c. 150-220), Christ the Educator, Volume II, page 10.
St. John** Chrysostom (345-407 AD) “Where there is murder before birth, you do not even let a harlot remain only a harlot, but you make of her a murderess as well.” **
St. Ambrose of ****Milan***ca 339-397 ***The wealthy, in order that their inheritance may not be divided among several, deny in the very womb their own progeny. By use of’ parricidal mixtures they snuff out the fruit of their wombs in the genital organs themselves. In this way life is taken away before it is born … Who except man himself has taught us ways of repudiating children?" -Hexameron
St. Augustine** of Hippo **(354-430 AD) “Sometimes their sadistic licentiousness goes so far…they find one means or another to destroy the unborn and flush it from the mother’s womb.” (The City of God, Book One, Chapter 16)
St. Jerome** (c. 340-420), **Letter to Eustochium, 22.13.
“Some virgins [unmarried women], when they learn they are with child through sin, practice abortion by the use of drugs. Frequently they die themselves and are brought before the ruler of the lower world guilty of three crimes; suicide, adultery against Christ and murder of an unborn child.”
**St. Basil the Great ****(379) “The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. The hair-splitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us.” **
**“Moreover, those, too, who give drugs causing abortion are deliberate murderers themselves, as well as those receiving the poison which kills the- fetus.” **
-Letter 188:2
**The Apostolic Constitutions *****ca 380 *****“Thou shalt not slay the child by causing abortion, nor kill that which is begotten. For everything that is shaped, and his received a soul from God, if slain, it shall be avenged, as being unjustly destroyed.” **
-7:3
**St. Thomas Aquinas: **Teaches that "abortion is a grave sin against the natural law."
[Would someone please help me find the resource for this quote?]
)
