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In reply to the discussion: Just wondering: Is there anything in the bible that discourages abortions? [View all]rug
(82,333 posts)11. Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.
Psalm 39:13-16
13 For it was you who formed my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mothers womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written
all the days that were formed for me,
when none of them as yet existed.
Psalm 22: 9-10
9 Yet it was you who took me from the womb;
you kept me safe on my mothers breast.
10 On you I was cast from my birth,
and since my mother bore me you have been my God.
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Just wondering: Is there anything in the bible that discourages abortions? [View all]
Kablooie
Jan 2014
OP
Many ancient people believed that a child was all the father's doing--the mother just an incubator.
bklyncowgirl
Jan 2014
#34
Don't forget....there are MILLIONS of god-triggered-abortions/miscarriages every year ,
pkdu
Jan 2014
#8
Those are the passages usually cited by anti-abortion activists as 'evidence' that
LuvNewcastle
Jan 2014
#23
there is that mention in Leviticus (I think) that says if you intentionally cause a woman
VanillaRhapsody
Jan 2014
#12
YUP ... and now the evangelicals pretend that Catholics are "real Christians" for political
JoePhilly
Jan 2014
#27
My old Episcopalian priest said that the Jewish belief was that life came with first breath
sweetloukillbot
Jan 2014
#15
That is a good answer, it's about the creation tale, in which God creates Adam out of
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2014
#32