# Was the early Christian Church against abortion?

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**Created:** [March 8, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-early-christian-church-against-abortion/937482 "2021-03-08T22:49:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-early-christian-church-against-abortion/937482/12 "2021-03-09T00:27:34Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> Back in _those_ days? Abortion was a death sentence, everyone was against it, but other than some herbs (abortifacients, which were also very dangerous) it wasnt done. There is nothing in the Bible about it.
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> If you went digging around in there with those tools and no concept of germs, the woman wasnt gonna make it. AFAIK, surgery abortion wasnt common until much, much later.

This touches on another subject [I’ve asked on the SD about](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-conditions-would-a-pre-modern-doctor-be-able-to-treat-effectively/789774/48). What _could_ a pre-modern doctor treat. I mean given everything we know about germ theory you’d think anything remotely invasive would be a death sentence. But its clear from the documents we have the doctors fairly routinely did things that were quite invasive (including abortion), and stay in the job, which you’d think wouldn’t happen if the fatality rate was close to 100%.

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