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What I recall is that the understanding of what that was changed over time. The wiki article on the issue of the CC's stance on abortion mentions compilations of lists of abortifacient herbs by the church several centuries later among other things. Basically abortion used to refer exclusively to doing so either shortly before birth/deep into pregnancy or after the first "quickenings" or movements could be felt or at the minimum a month after impregnation. By the 20th century they decided that basically the second that sperm gets in there and division starts it has a soul and messing with it is unacceptable.
Yeah, that's about right. AFAIK when the actual mechanism of how a zygote forms was pinned down, the Church pretty quickly decided that life must begin at conception and abortion at any time was illicit.