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No he did not. Though we must give him some credit from your end (and credit to most any historical figure over a hundred years behind our time). See, they didn't answer certain potential challenges or plan against certain contingencies in their arguments because, to them, those things were literally inconceivable. Thomas Aquinas literally never thought of the possibility that one could kill a baby within the womb of a woman without also killing the mother as well. Well, maybe he did in a fevered dream, but that dream would have so utterly horrified him that it would have... well, driven him even more to be as faithful as he was.
Aquinas did not consider a fetus as human before 40 days from conception for a boy or 80 days for a girl, as this was when he believed they gained a soul. As I understand, there was to be no punishment in his view if a fetus was terminated before this time.

This does not mean that he thought that abortion was wrong in all circumstances, but you see @Eliza Thomason does not distinguish between the two. She called me a hypocrite for disliking abortion while being pro-choice.