An early Christian ponders abortion (dogma, Christianity, christianity, Roman)

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Gregory of Nyssa, On the early death of Infants
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A blind unmeaning occurrence can never be the work of God; for it is the property of God, as the Scripture says1539, to “make all things in wisdom.” What wisdom, then, can we trace in the following? A human being enters on the scene of life, draws in the air, beginning the process of living with a cry of pain, pays the tribute of a tear to Nature1540 just tastes life’s sorrows, before any of its sweets have been his, before his feelings have gained 34any strength; still loose in all his joints, tender, pulpy, unset; in a word, before he is even human (if the gift of reason is man’s peculiarity, and he has never had it in him), such an one, with no advantage over the embryo in the womb except that he has seen the air, so short-lived, dies and goes to pieces again; being either exposed or suffocated, or else of his own accord ceasing to live from weakness. What are we to think about him? How are we to feel about such deaths?

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210 AD Tertullian [Latin]
ANF03. Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian | Christian Classics Ethereal Library

But sometimes by a cruel necessity, whilst yet in the womb, an infant is put to death, when lying awry in the orifice of the womb he impedes parturition, and kills his mother, if he is not to die himself. Accordingly, among surgeons’ tools there is a certain instrument, which is formed with a nicely-adjusted flexible frame for opening the uterus first of all, and keeping it open; it is further furnished with an annular blade,16761676 Anulocultro. [To be seen in the Museum at Naples.] by means of which the limbs within the womb are dissected with anxious but unfaltering care; its last appendage being a blunted or covered hook, wherewith the entire fœtus is extracted16771677 Or, “the whole business (totem facinus) is despatched.” by a violent delivery. There is also (another instrument in the shape of) a copper needle or spike, by which the actual death is managed in this furtive robbery of life: they give it, from its infanticide function, the name of ἐμβρυοσφάκτης , the slayer of the infant, which was of course alive. Such apparatus was possessed both by Hippocrates, and Asclepiades, and Erasistratus, and Herophilus, that dissector of even adults, and the milder Soranus himself, who all knew well enough that a living being had been conceived, and pitied this most luckless infant state, which had first to be put to death, to escape being tortured alive

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Tertullian's essay is quite good IMHO.

ANF03. Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian | Christian Classics Ethereal Library

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“Even the most detached historian may find it hard to investigate ancient child-exposure without revulsion.”

Harris, V. W. “Child-Exposure in the Roman Empire.” Journal of Roman Studies 84 (1994) page 2.