For us, murder is once for all forbidden... It makes no difference whether one take away the life once born, or destroy it as it comes to birth. He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
permalink source: Tertullian (160?-230?)“All killing is no more murder than all sexual intercourse is adultery.”
permalink source: C. S. LewisNear the opening of Scripture, in the first Biblical passage to use the word <i>sin</i>, two brothers come to grief over an offering... In this terse and cryptic story, the crime is murder and the motive is envy.
permalink source: Cornelius Plantinga, Not The Way It's Supposed To Be: A Breviary of Sin, p 158