“A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction between its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible among us.”
Saint Basil the Great
+
“The one who destroys the embryo is guilty of homicide, for the being that is coming to be is already one of us.”
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
+
“Those who give potions for the destruction of the child conceived in the womb are murderers, as are those who take potions which kill the child.”
Saint Basil the Great
+
“To destroy the fetus is something worse than murder. The one who does this does no to take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.”
Saint John Chrysostom
+
Saint Gabriel of Georgia had a Spiritual Vision about abortion: “I saw a multitude of small children, stained with blood!” After that, he would walk the main streets of his city, preaching: “Women, don’t do it! Don’t have an abortion!”
Saint Gabriel of Georgia, the Fool for Christ
+
“Certain Christians asked the Elder Paisie, “What will happen to the Souls of infants killed by abortion?”
Elder Paisie answered with a sigh: “I believe that these infants are Martyrs. They will complete the number of the Martyrs in the Last Times, as the Apocalypse says. In dying through abortion they receive the Baptism of blood, but the Church does not commemorate them in her Prayers in order not to encourage abortions, which for the parents is an act of infanticide.”
Elder Paisie Olahu of Sihastria
+
“You see how drunkenness leads to prostitution, prostitution to adultery, adultery to murder; or rather to a something even worse than murder… making the chamber of procreation a chamber for murder.”
Saint John Chrysostom
+
Someone asked Elder Thaddeus: “Will the Lord forgive those women who have had multiple abortions but have sincerely repented? What can they do to redeem their sin?”
Elder Thaddeus replied: “A woman who destroys the fruit of her womb commits a great sin. She is destroying life itself, for God alone is the Giver of life and He makes possible the conception of a human being in the womb. He gives life and a woman destroys it. Great repentance is necessary, from the depths of her Soul. She must change and never commit this sin again. Otherwise, she will be condemned as a murderess. No creature on Earth kills its young – only man, the rational being. This is a great sin, and if a woman does not repent from the depth of her Soul, she will be condemned as a murderess. Will she pass through the toll-houses? There is no sin that cannot be forgiven but the sin of unrepentance. True and sincere repentance is required for such a sin, and it must never be repeated again.”
Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
+
The Lord greatly loves the repenting sinner