She who has deliberately destroyed a fetus has to pay the penalty of murderhere it is not only the child to be born that is vindicated, but also the woman herself who made an attempt against her own life, because usually the women die in such attempts. Furthermore, added to this is the destruction of the child, another murder Moreover, those, too, who give drugs causing abortion are deliberate murderers themselves, as well as those receiving the poison which kills the fetus.St. Basil the Great, Letter 188:2, circa 370.

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