Seems interesting . I ' ll definitely check it out <| sep |> Im lvl 92 and have planted numerous bombs but haven ' t yet had the opportunity to defuse a single one . <| sep |> Perhaps the clearest and earliest was Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul Chapter XXVII Now we allow that life begins with conception , because we contend that the soul also begins from conception life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does . Other Early Church Fathers were very clear in their pronouncements that killing a child in the womb was just as much murder as killing a child who had been born . This website has a good selection of quotes from these Fathers and this article is a very good analysis of orthodox church teaching .