Elizabeth Bruenig

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@espiers It was actually. Augustine wrote about it. It's also in the Didache and I think came up at the Synod of Elvira, so it was certainly under explicit discussion 2nd-4th centuries. No, I don't mean viability, I mean fetal 'life' -- that's what they equated with quickening. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@espiers Well, early Christianity, as in the very 1st century, was pretty determined by the origin of the converts. Some were Greek, some were Jews, some were Roman. They had a huge variety of views on the subject. Some Greeks, per the Hippocratic oath, objected to the practice. — PolitiTweet.org