[TheCrusader]

"You shall not kill an unborn child or murder a newborn infant". ('Teaching of the Twelve Apostles', - aka 'the Didache' - 2nd century).

"For as murder is once for all forbidden; so even the child in the womb..." (Tertullian, early Church Father - 3rd century).

"A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder". (Saint Basil, 4th century).

[linda_22003]

Are you advocating that the laws of the United States be amended to reflect this? This was never the penalty back when abortion was illegal.

[iowamark]

The Didache is valuable reading for all:
"There are two ways, one of life and one of death, but a great difference between the two ways. The way of life, then, is this: First, you shall love God who made you; second, love your neighbor as yourself, and do not do to another what you would not want done to you. And of these sayings the teaching is this: Bless those who curse you, and pray for your enemies, and fast for those who persecute you...