What about this in the Didache?
The Didache, a second-century catechism for young converts, states, “Do not murder a child by abortion or kill a newborn infant” (Didache 2.2). Clement of Alexandria maintained that “those who use abortifacient medicines to hide their fornication cause not only the outright murder of the fetus, but of the whole human race as well” (Paedogus 2:10.96.1).
Defending Christians before Marcus Aurelius in A.D. 177, Athenagoras argued, “What reason would we have to commit murder when we say that women who induce abortions are murderers, and will have to give account of it to God? …The fetus in the womb is a living being and therefore the object of God’s care” (A Plea for the Christians, 35.6).
Tertullian said, “It does not matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. In both instances, destruction is murder” (Apology, 9.4). Basil the Great affirmed, “Those who give abortifacients for the destruction of a child conceived in the womb are murderers themselves, along with those receiving the poisons” (Canons, 188.2). Jerome called abortion “the murder of an unborn child” (Letter to Eustochium, 22.13). Augustine warned against the terrible crime of “the murder of an unborn child” (On Marriage, 1.17.15). Origen, Cyprian, and Chrysotom were among the many other prominent theologians and church leaders who condemned abortion as the killing of children. New Testament scholar Bruce Metzger comments, “It is really remarkable how uniform and how pronounced was the early Christian opposition to abortion.” [10]
What I reject is that in doing their scholarly work in the realm of faith, the so called experts might not be wrong on something. Unless they actually lived during the times. But I dont mind if you need to put my faith down. I know none of us truly know with 100% absolute certainty matters of faith. We might believe we do but that’s different. That’s why it’s called faith to begin with and I’m just going to try to be humble as I walk in mine.
rolleyes
Even scientists use logical deductions to conclude what certainly happened in the past and what is highly likely to happen in the future, and there are whole areas of study in which “not living during those times” has no bearing on the certainty of conclusions about what did happen during those times. We use all kinds of other evidence (outside of eyewitnesses) to determine what happened during monarchies & imperial governments of ancient civilizations, with high levels of certitude nevertheless. And the same is true of ancient Palestine during the time of Jesus.