“We say also that women who use drugs to bring about abortion commit murder, and they will have to give an account to God for the abortion. So, on what principle should we commit murder? The same person could not simultaneously regard the very fetus in the womb as a created being — and therefore an object of  God’s care — and yet kill it when it has passed into life”

(St Athengoras of Athens,  arguing against the charge Christians were cannibals, 2nd century)