“Thou shalt not kill”. Quite unequivocal.
I wasn't that firm in my religious beliefs back then.
A strange thing happened years ago on the catholic newsgroup on usenet. I'd argue with the atheists about abortion being wrong, used to ask some how they like it if their mother aborted them.
One poster it was like screaming it through the message onto my screen that my mother had "killed" my older brother. It kind of haunted me, such an odd thing, and I always wanted a baby brother very badly but my mother refused to have any more children (she was an older first-time mother) besides my sister and me.
Off and on, I got to thinking about it. My mom, could she have before she married my dad? A family secret my sister and I were never told until after she died was that she had been married and divorced before she met my father but no children came from it.
Then I remembered her talking occasionally about her trip to Mexico and Cuba. Would have been in the 30's. I'll never know in this world. My father and I talked about religion very occasionally but he didn't believe in spaying animals (I do now) so I suspect he wouldn't have approved of abortion even though it was never mentioned. They were good parents, but they weren't religious.
My dad never said anything about his parents, but I think they didn't tell them my mother had been married before because, knowing my grandmother and that small town, she would have had a fit.
I still feel guilty about some other things but confessed them all and wouldn't do them again, didn't procure an abortion (it would have terrified me maybe more than having a baby but I never ever wanted to have an out-of-wedlock child)..
Eating some walleye fillets, and they have a few tiny sharp bones, trying not to swallow one. I like catfish and salmon better.