Monday, September 20, 2021

Quinisext/Trullo: Same Penance for Murder for Providing/Receiving Abortifacient Drugs

 

 

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)