Word: torreblanca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know it? The implication, that there may be a brief period during which abortion is licit, is not new in the church, though it has been a minor refrain in Catholic theology and explicitly rejected many times by the Vatican. An influential 17th century theologian named Torreblanca taught that before the fetus is animated by the soul, a woman may have an abortion if she is in danger of death or in danger of losing her reputation. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of the medieval theologian-philosophers, had opened the same door in the 13th century with his view that...
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