As is well known, the United
States (US) Supreme Court has recently reversed the 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling, and
the serious matter of abortion has been once again fervently debated throughout
the world. “My body, my choice,” argue the pro-choice women! “The child has
rights, too,” reply the pro-lifers! The purpose of this note is to stress that
if people accepted the teachings of the Church Fathers, who have spoken and
written about everything, based on the Holy Scriptures and on the Holy
Tradition, such debates would be totally unnecessary.
For the matter at hand, the 6th
Ecumenical Council (691 AD), in its 91st Holy Canon, says: “As for
women who furnish drugs for the purpose of procuring abortion, and those who
take fetus-killing poisons, they are made subject to the penalty prescribed for
murderers.” St. Basil the Great, in his 2nd
Canon, which is acknowledged in the 2nd Canon of the 6th Ecumenical
Council, says the same.
Therefore,
if all people on earth were Orthodox Christians, there would be harmony and
peace everywhere and agreement on every matter. Unfortunately, however,
nowadays, people go to the opposite direction! That is, they leave Orthodoxy to
become atheists or heretics, who are also atheists, according to St. Gregory
Palamas (14th century). Worse, not everyone who claims to be
Orthodox is in fact so. Nowadays, only a few people on earth are truly Orthodox
Christians. To my knowledge, all patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops who
pretend to be Orthodox Christians aren’t, as they communicate ecclesiastically
with the pan-heresy of Ecumenism. Therefore, in accordance with the 15th
Holy Canon of the so called “First and Second” Council (861 AD), they are not
bishops, but pseudo-bishops! Needless to say, the same is true of the Roman
Catholics, the Anglicans and the other Protestant denominations, the
Monophysites, etc.
