[NYer]

Abortion is murder. That's the Orthodox position.

But, according to a previous post, the decision to use 'artificial birth control' (i.e. an abortaficient), is okay. Please clarify the diffference for us. When is it 'okay' to abort an unborn child, in the Orthodox Church, using artificial birth control?

[cammie]

All of this talk about abortifacient birth control pills because they prevent implantation leads me to the following question:

If you believe prevention of implantation is abortion, then the logical belief that follows is that every time a fertilized egg doesn't implant, a woman has a miscarriage and a soul goes to wherever unborn baby souls go, whether heaven, or the discredited limbo, or somewhere else.

I don't believe the Church has ever taken that stance which, IMHO, makes the birth control pills are abortifacients per the Catholic Church argument difficult to maintain.

[Enosh]

Sports fans! N is up! She ducks, she swerves, she JABS!

[Kolokotronis]

"When is it 'okay' to abort an unborn child, in the Orthodox Church, using artificial birth control?"

Never, so far as I know.

[FormerLib]

But, according to a previous post, the decision to use 'artificial birth control' (i.e. an abortaficient), is okay.

Actually, I mentioned it no uncertain terms that such methods were not acceptable to the Orthodox.

Either you accept that or you choose to bear false witness. Which is it, then?