Is aborting a baby murder?

[TonyChanYT]

Exodus 20:13 New International Version:

You shall not murder.

LXX:

Οὐ φονεύσεις [G5407].

Is aborting a baby murder?

The author of the Didache (1st century AD) thought so, Didache 2:

2 ου φονευσεις [G5407], ου μοιχευσεις, ου παιδοφθορησεις, ου πορνευσεις, ου κλεψεις, ου μαγευσεις, ου φαρμακευσεις, ου **φονευσεις [G5407] τεκνον** εν φθορα ουδε γεννηθεν αποκτενεις.

not you will murder , not you will do adultry , not you will do child sex, not you will do illicit sex, not you will steal , not you will do magic, not you will do sorcery , not you will murder child to destruction neither newly begotten in the womb you will kill.

Lightfoot translated the Greek G5407-murder into the English "abortion":

{Thou shalt do no murder, thou shalt not commit adultery,} thou shalt not corrupt boys, thou shalt not commit fornication, {thou shalt not steal,} thou shalt not deal in magic, thou shalt do no sorcery, thou shalt not murder a child by abortion nor kill them when born.

 

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Is aborting a baby murder?

If done for one convience or advantage yes, if done to save the mothers life no.