Word: callistus
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Christians were against abortion from the beginning, holding that the fetus is not part of the mother but a person in its own right, and they also opposed contraception. St. Hippolytus in the 3rd century criticized Pope St. Callistus for his leniency in granting absolution to ''women, reputed believers, who began to resort to drugs for producing sterility, and to gird themselves round, so as to expel what was being conceived...
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