1. ABOUT ABORTION

2. JOURNAL QUESTION:
Let’s say there is a visibly pregnant junior at Carondelet and she is in your Religion class. How would you treat this student? (Think of some scenes from Juno for a mental image.)

3. The Didache Also known as “The Teaching of the 12 Apostles”
Written in the early 1st century
One of the oldest non-canonical Christian texts
Contains teachings for Christians to follow

4. The Didache
Now the second precept of the teaching is: "You will not murder. You will not commit adultery.” You will not sodomize young boys. You will not have unlawful sex.” You will not steal." Do not practice magic. Do not practice sorcery. Neither murder a child by abortion, nor will you destroy what is born.

5. Declaration on Procured Abortion #12
“From the time that the ovum is fertilized, a life is begun which is:
Neither that of the father
Nor of the mother
…the life of a new human with its own growth.
It would never be made human if it were not human already…”

6. CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE ON ABORTION
Direct abortion is always seen as sinful
This even includes cases or rape or incest /