{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140475.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140475.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140475.htm","text":"Those who give drugs for procuring abortion, and those who receive poisons to kill the f\u0153tus, are subjected to the penalty of murder.\nWhoever gives or receives medicine to produce abortion is a homicide.\nSee Canon XXI. of Ancyra, and Canon II. of St. Basil; to wit, \u201cShe who purposely destroys the f\u0153tus, shall suffer the punishment of murder. And we pay no attention to the subtile distinction as to whether the f\u0153tus was formed or unformed. And by this not only is justice satisfied for the child that should have been born, but also for her who prepared for herself the snares, since the women very often die who make such experiments.\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Ca...","type":"page"}