RE: are any of you honest enough to simply answer the question asked?
February 3, 2019 at 7:43 pm
(February 3, 2019 at 6:28 am)Nomad Wrote: Up until the 1860s the rcc based their ideology on abortion on what they considered to be actual personhood*. Hence why abortion was deemed legal by the church up to 13 weeks.
*A very subjective and unscientific approach was used, mainly dealing with the idea of ensoulment and when that happened.
That's interesting; I didn't know that.
Dante says somewhere that the fetus isn't ensouled until it has reached a certain stage of development. (40 days...?) Because he thought a human soul requires a form more or less human-shaped to support it. But he doesn't connect this with abortion, and I didn't know that it was official church policy.
