CANON 91
About the penance for those who provide or receive abortifacient drugs
[56] ‘Women who provide
abortifacient drugs are those who receive poisons that kill embryos’ (Canon 8
of Basil of Caesarea) we subject to the penance for murder. (The Canons of
Quinisext Council (691-2) [trans. Richard Price; Liverpool: Liverpool University
Press, 2020], 163)
