Early Christian Quotes on Abortion

Didache 

(1st Century)

2:2

 

Do not murder a child by abortion or kill a newborn infant.

 

 

Barnabas’s Epistle

(1st Century)

Chapter 19:

 

You will not kill a child by having an abortion; nor will you kill a child after it is born.

 

 

Athenagoras' Plea for the Christians

(Late 2nd Century)

Chapter 35:

 

Women who use drugs to bring on abortion commit murder and will have to give an account to God for the abortion.