What is the stance of the School of Alexandria on Abortion?

In the Apology of Athenagoras in the second century, he makes it clear to the Empire that the Church forbids abortion.¹¹⁵² In St. Clement of Alexandria’s view, it is necessary not to use any means to kill the fetus for the purposes of stopping the reproduction of the human race. However, we still see some women using poisonous drugs that kill the infants in their wombs, depriving themselves of all humaneness.¹¹⁵³

1150 St. Cyril of Alexandria, “Commentary on John Book XII,” in Commentary on the Gospel of St. John Vol. 2 , trans. Walter Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1885) on John 20:16: p. 657.

1151 St. Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies 4.8 (ANF 2:420).

1152 Athenagoras, A Plea for the Christians 35 (ANF 2:147).

1153 St. Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor or Christ the Educator (Paedagogus) 2.10.97 (FOTC 23:174).