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https://www.aoiusa.org/the-pro-life-cause-orthodoxy-and-hope/ A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:43:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-pro-life-cause-orthodoxy-and-hope/#comment-22771 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:43:08 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11389#comment-22771 Another work abortion in the Byzantine Empire by Athenian doctors states that the Byzantines opposed abortion by the churcn no commuion for 10 years and later this was less of a punishment. Imperial laws banishment, divorce and corporal punishment. The Basil law punishment women with corporal punishment for killing children to have a certain heir. There were exceptions if the mother life was in danger.

]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-pro-life-cause-orthodoxy-and-hope/#comment-22770 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:09:28 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11389#comment-22770 For all those orthodox that admired Byzantine emperors, well the Byzantine empeors in their law codes also opposed abortion and child abandoment. Justinian Code subjects abortionists to the full penality of the civil and church law. And if people bring up about Theodora having abortions prior to meeting Justinian this was possbile but his law also stated that a husband could divorce a wife for having an abortion, so I doubt that she had an abortion after marrying him and she did ask the St Sabba to pray for her to conceive he refused since she was thought as a monophysite. Basil the first in the 9th century copied a lot of laws from Justinian and the laws against abortion and abandonment are also in his laws. The laws of Basil were completed by Leo VI. This is according to historian JD Bury an expert on the Latter Roman Empire-today known as the Byzantine empire. All of this is done by a study of laws by Calvinists not Orthodox. So, here is how Byzantine society thought on the issue of abortion which isn’t as important to modern orthodox.

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