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7. ***ALSO*** Exodus explains what happens when a person causes a woman to have a miscarriage (link)

Reply to Miigwech (Original post)

Fri Feb 5, 2021, 03:00 PM

Feb 2021

... and the fact that is not eye for eye because the baby isn't sentient

https://www.biblestudytools.com/gnt/passage/?q=exodus+21:22-25;+leviticus+24:19-20;+deuteronomy+19:18-20;+matthew+5:38-41

22 "If some men are fighting and hurt a pregnant woman so that she loses her child, but she is not injured in any other way, the one who hurt her is to be fined whatever amount the woman's husband demands, subject to the approval of the judges. 23 But if the woman herself is injured, the punishment shall be life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

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Here it is ... abortion sanctioned in the Bible ... [View all] Miigwech Feb 2021 OP

I never knew that! Ha! lindysalsagal Feb 2021 #1

K & R & Bookmarked! SunSeeker Feb 2021 #2

Bookmarked also. Man, the title, God promotes abortions. Lol. Right now I put up a mansplaining LizBeth Feb 2021 #14

Interesting. What happens to the unfaithful husband? yonder Feb 2021 #3

"Verily, I say unto you, boys will be boys." MineralMan Feb 2021 #9

LMAO. That's about the truth in the all male version of the Bible. Hoyt Feb 2021 #11

What he said...☝️ Heartstrings Feb 2021 #12

+1 LizBeth Feb 2021 #15

Wink, wink, nudge, nudge nilram Feb 2021 #27

WOw, more pure evil from the 'Good Book' consider_this Feb 2021 #4

Oh dear, all this time I thought God was a loving God, now we find out 42bambi Feb 2021 #5

Aha! You're a thorough reader of the Bible. MineralMan Feb 2021 #6

... Ferrets are Cool Feb 2021 #20

***ALSO*** Exodus explains what happens when a person causes a woman to have a miscarriage (link) uponit7771 Feb 2021 #7

This, to me, is the more compelling Biblical verse intrepidity Feb 2021 #25

Yep, watch a anti choice head explode as they try to twist this to mean something else uponit7771 Feb 2021 #33

Very interesting, I never realized that was what they meant in the book of Numbers. FM123 Feb 2021 #8

Yeah, using an abortion forced by the authorities isn't a great argument imo. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2021 #10

ah yes... handmade34 Feb 2021 #13

We only wish! BComplex Feb 2021 #19

A trial by ordeal, with the ordeal being forced to drink an abortifacient. Mariana Feb 2021 #16

It reads differently in hebrew. Mosby Feb 2021 #17

What? They even had Fox news back then, LOL Miigwech Feb 2021 #22

Looks like "bitter water" is dirty water and it's a gamble on how dirty the floor is. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2021 #18

Sounds to me like Satanic Rituals msfiddlestix Feb 2021 #21

Look at it this way: religionists claim that god designed the human body. stopbush Feb 2021 #23

There's a tons of bonkers shit in the Bahbull. lagomorph777 Feb 2021 #24

no one else going to point out stopdiggin Feb 2021 #26

Yup, written numerous times Politicalgolfer Feb 2021 #28

Yeesh mindfulNJ Feb 2021 #29

3.5 liters of ground barley PurgedVoter Feb 2021 #30

Numbers is in the Old Testament - Ms. Toad Feb 2021 #31

For Christians, which is why you and others call it the "old" testament. Mosby Feb 2021 #32

And which religious group is it that believes abortion is a sin? Ms. Toad Feb 2021 #34

It's a small point, but it bugs a lot of Jews. Mosby Feb 2021 #37

There are also more verses that also don't forbid abortion DLCWIdem Feb 2021 #35

And next we had witchcraft BSdetect Feb 2021 #36