Aristotle and abortion
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Aristotle and abortion concerns the prohibition on abortion by Aristotle as soon as the unborn child attains any sensation of life, such as a heartbeat:
| “ | In the seventh book of The Politics, Aristotle claims that the practice of abortion must be forbidden as soon as the embryo acquires sensation and life because, after this stage of a pregnancy, it is an impious mè hosion act.[1] | ” |