Anti-Abortionism

Anti-Abortionism is an ideology that stands against abortion.

Pre-Modern
The earliest recorded laws against abortion come from the Assyrian Empire, whose legal code (11th century BCE) states; "If a woman with her consent brings on a miscarriage, they sieze her and determine her guilt.  On a stake they impale her and do not bury her".

The Ancient Greeks were generally not against abortion. However, there were exceptions; the ancient Hippocratic Oath declared "I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion". The philosopher Pythagoras believed that life began at conception; the ancient historian Diogenes Laertius, describing the beliefs of Pythagoras, said "when brought to the womb ... soul and sense come from the vapour within" (Lives VIII.28). The same source records how Pythagoras "forbade even the killing, let alone the eating, of animals which share with us the privilege of having a soul" (VIII.13). By extension he likely would have opposed abortion.

The early Christian church was almost universally anti-abortion. The Didache (1st century CE) declared "you shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is begotten" (chapter II).

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Modern
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 * Anti-abortion movements
 * Fetal rights
 * Anti-abortion violence
 * Anti-abortion feminism