The Early Church on Abortion

The Bible in the Old Testament and the New Testament are exclusively Pro-Life.
This is my exegesis of it. The Holy Bible has God as the Author of Life and that life
is in the blood. (Genesis 2:7, Deuteronomy 30:20, Acts 17:25, 28) Only God is
entitled to end one's life and to deliberately destroy human life without cause is sin
and is punishable by death (Exodus 20:13, Psalm 31:15, Genesis 9:6, Acts 25:11,
Matthew 26:52, Romans 1:32, Revelation 13:10, etc.) Also, the scriptures fully
convey the personhood of the unborn. The Bible refers to the unborn as children
not "blobs of tissue" or "it" plus the unborn is a separate being apart from the
mother. (Luke 1:36, Matthew 1:18, 23, Genesis 25:21-24, etc.)

The Scriptures fully display at Exodus 21:22-25 that if a fight breaks out and a
pregnant woman miscarriages with a child coming out, but the child and mother
lives, a fine is given for punishment for the man. If anyone is harmed leading to
death, whether the child or the mother, then it's life for life, eye for eye, tooth for
tooth proving that the unborn child is a person.
There is no need to abort since God has a plan for all life established at conception.
(Pslam 139:13-16, Isaiah 1:5, Jeremiah 1:5, Galatians 1:15) From the Bible, God
knew the plan of Jeremiah before being formed in the belly of the womb. God
hates the shedding of innocent blood. (Exodus 23:7, Proverbs 6:16-19, Isaiah
5:20-21) To abort a baby is to kill an innocent.

The baby is inside of the womb with a different blood than the mother's, seperate
brainwaves, and different human DNA making it seperate and independent from the
mother being a person. God the Son was in Mary's womb. Mary was poor and lived in
harsh circumstances so does Mary des erves an abortion possessing the right to
choose? Is Jesus inside of Mary's womb, part of Mary's body? Are the prophets of the
OT deserve abortion if their mothers are poor, born out of wedlock, sick mothers,
etc. No. Abortion is borderline blasphemy since innocent life is degraded and it
disrespects Christ's birth with a poor family being God in the flesh.

Abortion is just directly an interference to the potential of all human life leading to
a great life following God. There is a possibilty that the aborted child could be the
world's next great leader, but we may never know or witness since that life is gone.

There is no Biblical justification for abortion whatsoever. Without further ado,

here’s the opinion of the Early Church on Abortion plus Martin Luther and John
Calvin opposed abortion as well.

1). 150 AD Didache "The second commandment of the teaching: You shall not
murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not seduce boys. You shall not
commit fornication. You shall not steal. You shall not practice magic. You shall not
use potions. You shall not procure [an] abortion, nor destroy a newborn child"
(Didache 2:1)

2). 170 AD Mark Felix "There are some women among you who by drinking special
potions extinguish the life of the future human in their very bowels, thus
committing murder before they even give birth." (Mark Felix, Christian Lawyer,
Octavius chap. 30)

3). 177 AD Athenagoras "What man of sound mind, therefo re, will affirm, while
such is our character, that we are murderers? . . . [W]hen we say that those women
who use drugs to bring on abortion commit murder, and will have to give an account
to God for the abortion, on what principle should we commit murder?

For it does not belong to the same person to regard the very fetus in the womb as a
created being, and therefore an object of God's care, and when it has passed into
life, to kill it; and not to expose an infant, because those who expose them are
chargeable with child-murder, and on the other hand, when it has been reared to
destroy it" (A Plea for the Christians 35, Embassy chap. 5).

177 AD Athenagoras, "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? For the same person would not regard the fetus in the womb as a living
thing and therefore an object of God's care, and at the same time slay it, on ce it
had come to life." (Athenagoras Plea, ch.35)

4). 210 AD Tertullian "In our case, a 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 the 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 birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you
have the fruit already in its seed" (Apology 9:8).

210 AD Tertullian "Now we allow that life begins with conception because we
contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at
the same moment and place that the soul does" (Apology 27).

210 AD Tertullian "The law of Moses, indeed, punishes with due penalties the man
who shall cause abortion [Ex. 21:22]

5). 226 AD Minucius Felix "There are some [pagan] women who, by drinking
medical preparations, extinguish the source of the future man in their very bowels
and thus commit a parricide before they bring forth. And these things assuredly
come down from the teaching of your [false] gods. . . . To us [Christians] it is not
lawful either to see or hear of homicide" (Octavius 30).

6). 228 AD Hippolytus "Women who were reputed to be believers began to take
drugs to render themselves sterile, and to bind themselves tightly so as to expel
what was being conceived, since they would not, on account of relatives and excess
wealth, want to have a child by a slave or by any insignificant person. See, then,
into what great impiety that lawless one has proceeded, by teaching adultery and
murder at the same time!" (Refutation of All Heresies).
Adolf Hitler Supported Abortion
This is the undisputed fact that Planned Parenthood, N.A.R.A.L., N.O.W., the rest of
the establishment, and especially the bias mainstream media refuses to show to this
information to the public. Adolf Hitler was pro-choice and supported Abortion.
Gloria Steinem, CIA Feminist agent, smilingly believed that Hitler was Pro-life in
1980 by her quote:

“Hitler himself and the Nazi doctrine he created were unequivocally opposed to any
individual right to abortion.” (Gloria Steinem, Ms., October 1980). Ha ha ha ah
ha!!!!! How wrong she was. Here’s the smoking gun of the direct words from Hitler
subscribing to abortion:

“The Slavs are to work for us. Insofar as we don’t need them, they may die.
Therefore compulsory vaccination and German health services are superfluous.
The fertility of the Slavs is undesirable. They may use contraceptives and
practice abortion, the more the better. Education is dangerous. It is sufficient if
they can count up to a hundred. At best education is admissible which produces
useful servants for us. Every educated person is a future energy. Religion we
leave to them as a means of diversion. As to food, they are not to get more than
necessary. We are the masters.” (Gerald Reitlinger, The House Built on Sand; the
Conflicts of German Policy in Russia, 1939-1945 [New York]; 1960, p. 200)
Hitler always supported all forms of abortion except for Aryan women, which Hitler
wanted his racist plans for a “master race” which there is no such thing. (All races
are equal and all human beings are created by Almighty God). The Nazis forced non-
Aryan women in the conquered countries to have abortions and sterilizations in
order to keep their population down (this eventually led to out-and-out mass-
killing). Hitler wanted to limit and reduce all non-Aryan populations. In late 1939 a
decree was issued encouraging Polish women to seek abortions. The campaign was
called "Auswahlfeiheit" ("Freedom of Choice"). As early as 1933 [when the Nazis
came to power], the law was changed to legalize abortion in Germany. The details
were left to the Berlin Chambers of Physicians, Germany’s most vociferous abortion
and vociferous group back then. This group used the fake guise of “the health of the
mother” to execute abortion. “The health of the mother” isn’t just life or death,
but racial, economic, or psychological factors which is extremely grotesque. Dr.
Frederick J. Taussig explains this accurately:

“The struggle to have therapeutic indications for abortion (done by a physician)

legally recognized did not meet with success until 1933, when the new enactments
passed by the Hitler government established that abortion under genuine medical
indications is not subject to punishment when demanded and performed by legally
qualified physicians.” (Abortion spontaneous and Induced: Medical and Social
Aspects by Dr. Frederick J. Tausssig, pg. 424 in 1936)

Taussig was an obstetrics professor at the Washington University School of Medicine

in St. Louis, Missouri and he promoted abortion as far back as the 1930’s so this
quote isn’t bias towards the Pro-Life movement at all. By 1935, in Nazi Germany
(Third Reich) with a population of 65 million people, 500,000 abortions were
performed each year. On November 25, 1939 shortly after the occupation of Nazi SS
organization called Reich Commission for Strengthening of Germandom (RKFDV)
issued this decree:
“All measures which have the tendency to limit the births are to be tolerated or to
be supported. Abortion in the remaining area [of Poland] must be declared free
from punishment. The means for abortion and contraceptive means may be offered
publicly without police restriction. Homosexuality is always to be declared legal.
The institutions and persons involved professionally in abortion practices are not to
be interfered with by police.” (Kamenetsky, "German Lebensraum," 171.)

This policy was confirmed on May 27, 1941 at a Ministry of the Interior conference in
Berlin. Another Nazi decree of 1941 (October 19, 1941) established abortion on
demand as the offical policy of Poland. Hitler even threatened to shoot anyone who
restricted abortion unto the Polish population by his own words:

"If any such idiot tried to put into practice such an order. . . he would personally
shoot him up. In view of the large families of the native population, it could only
suit us if girls and women there had as many abortions as possible."( Alexander
Dallin, German Rule in Russia, 1941-1945 (London, 1957), 141f. Clarissa Henry and
Marc Hillel, _Of Pure Blood_, Trans. Eric Mossbacher (New York, 1976), 148. Ihor
Kamenetsky, "German Lebensraum Policy in Eastern Europe During World War II"
(Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of Ill., 1957) (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm, #
25,236), 172-73, Ihor Kamenetsky, _Secret Nazi Plans for Eastern Europe_ (New
York, 1961), 143, Joachim C. Fest, _Hitler_ (New York, 1975), 683-84.)

Hitler just wanted abortions to be expanded to all populations under the control of
“the Ministry of the Occupied Territories of the East.” Hitler accomplished that by
his July 23, 1942 decree which extended abortions to other parts of Eastern Europe.
Hitler confirmed his order on August 5. Bormann personally in favor of abortion for non-
Aryan women by writing:

"When girls and women in the Occupied Territories of the East have abortions, we can
only be in favor of it; in any case we should not oppose it. The Fuhrer belives that we
should authorize the development in a thriving trade in contraceptives. We are not
interested in seeing the non-German population multiply." (Harvest of Hate, 1954,, p.274)

On June 9, 1943, he issued an order to the SS, SD, and the police which was the
Reichskommisar Kaltenbrummer to have abortions for Eastern Female workers if
they desired it especially if non-Aryan racially. Professor William Bennan of the
School of Social Science at St. Louis University, in 1983 wrote The Abortion
Holocaust exposing the Nazi/Abortion connection published by Landmark Press. He
also was the author of Medical Holocausts. His The Abortion Holocaust book
conveyed that:

“Individuals such as Gloria Steinem, who have characterized Hitler as unequivocally

opposed to abortion, are right then? Not at all. This in only part of the picture, and
a minor one at that. Hitler's opposition to abortion possessed a definite ideological
flavor: the building of a master race of Aryans. The converse of this, the tearing
down of non-Aryans, necessitated a strong pro-abortion mindset [for non-Aryans].
....." (p. 33)

It is also obvious that the Nazis practiced eugenics, forced sterilization, and
euthanasia along with abortion leading to the genocide of 20 million+ human beings.
After WW II, the War crimes Tribunal indicted 10 Nazi leaders for “encouraging and
compelling abortion” which is considered a “crime against humanity.” (Trials of War
Criminals, “Nuremberg Military Tribunal, Washington D.C; USGPO, vol. IV, p. 610)
When the brainwashed pro-choice propagandists classify you as a nut for being Pro-
Life and supporting the right of the unborn to live, tell them directly that the
procedure of abortion from existed from paganism, witchcraft, Canaan, Celts,
Babylon, Nazism, and from Satan himself. Adolf Hitler was pro-abortion. The media
has never displayed these immensely valuable facts to you for obvious reasons.
Abortion is never of God. Abortion is murder.

The Original Hippocratic Oath Condemned Abortion

Even though the Bible forbids oath-taking, it’ s truly interesting to note that the original
Hippocratic oath condemned this [abomination of abortion] and were deleted from the oath in
the 1960’s by the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Toronto School of Medicine:

“I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; furthermore,
I will not give to a woman an instrument to produce abortion.” (ancient Hippocratic Oath)

“I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time of conception.” (Hippocratic
Oath, revised September, 1948, Declaration of Geneva).

Sir William Blackstone on Abortion in the 1700’s according to English Common Law:

“Life is the immediate gift of God, a right inherent by nature in every individual…It begins, in
the contemptation of law, as soon as an infant is ableto stir in the mother’s womb.” (W.
Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, Chicago: University Press, 1979 rep. 1 pp.
125f. See too Justice Tom C. Clark: The Law As It Governs Decisions Today in [Spitzer &
Saylor: op cit., p. 359).
RU-486
This pill have been dubbed the abortion pill. William Jefferson Clinton first
issued it unto Americans on September 28, 2000. This allowed the FDA (Food and
Drug Administration) to approve RU-486 for marketing and prescripton in the United
States. This monostrity was invented by Dr. Etienre-Emile Baulieu in France. It’s
legal in France by 1988 and used in other European countries plus Communist
China as well. China is no surprise since its appalling human rights and religious
rights’ abuses with one child polices by forced abortion, contraception, sterilization,
infanticide, and death camps by torture. Many abortionists like Eleanor Smeal,
Gloria Feldt, and Al Gore all supported Ru-486 as safe and great for women.

Obviously, they are sadly mistaken. The abortion pill is a synthetic steroid that
starves the baby to death by restricting progesterone (a natural hormone vital to the
early stages of pregnancy) to the unborn child by detaching the baby from the wall
of the mother’s womb. The baby dies a short time later as a result of resources
ending. There is absolutely a Nazi connection with RU-486. During WWII, Hoescht
AG was IG Farben, the Nazi chemical giant known for its production of cynanide
gas and Zyklon-B to kill million of people in Hitler’s regime at concentration
camps. (i.e. Auschwitz, etc.) IG Farben also performed unethical medical
experiments undertaken by Mengele and other S.S. doctors. IG Farben may
change its stripes to Hoescht AG, but a Nazi is still a Nazi if it continues in the
Nazi practice of Abortion. Hoescht AG now owns Roussel Uclaf (a company who was
once a subsidiary to IG Farben). The negative effects of RU-486 are just blatantly
evil. A California teenager named Holly Patterson died after taking the RU 486
abortion drug.

In U.S. trials, 79-96% of women taking RU-486/PG developed prolonged pain

requiring a pin killer, 24-61% experienced nausea. Other side effect are diarrhea,
vomiting, infection, skin conditions, breast conditions, very heavy vaginal bleeding,
etc. Bleeding can last up to 40 days and dilatoration and curterage is required in
many cases. An ABC News poll at September 6th-10th, 2000 have 45% to 47%
opposing RU-486 being legal. Legalized murder couldn’t be more accessible than
this destructive pill.
By Timothy