The Holy Canons Trullo Canon 91
Canon 91 Abortion punished with the penance of murder
Κανόνες τῆς ἐν Τρούλλῳ Ἁγίας καὶ Οἰκουμενικῆς Πενθέκτης Συνόδου
The Council in Trullo · Constantinople, 691 to 692 · convened by the emperor Justinian II · The Quinisext Council (Trullo, 692) on the map
Women who give drugs that cause abortion, and women who take poisons that kill the unborn, we subject to the penance of a murderer.
Τὰς τὰ ἀμβλωθρίδια διδούσας φάρμακα, καὶ τὰς δεχομένας τὰ ἐμβρυοκτόνα δηλητήρια, τῷ τοῦ φονέως ἐπιτιμίῳ καθυποβάλλομεν.
The Council in Trullo, the canons
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