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Quotes from Early Councils
Council of Elvira (c. 305)
Canon 68: If a catechumen should conceive by an adulterer, and should procure
the death of the child, she can be baptized only at the end of her life.
Council of Ancyra (314)
Canon 21: Women who prostitute themselves, and who kill the child thus
begotten, or who try to destroy them when in their wombs, are by ancient law
excommunicated to the end of their lives. We, however, have softened their
punishment and condemned them to the various appointed degrees of penance for
ten years.
More Patristic Quotes
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