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Richard D

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8. There is nothing . . .
Thu Apr 4, 2024, 11:05 PM
Apr 2024

. . . in the Christian bible, aka The New Testament, about abortion. There is nowhere it is prohibited. Since they also consider the Tanakh (aka Old Testament) to be scripture, any ruling about Jewish exemption should also apply to Christians if it is based on Biblical principles.

Edited to add:

Exodus 21:22-25 provides a legal context for the consequences of causing a pregnant woman to miscarry: "If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."

Mishnah, Ohalot 7:6, states:

"If a woman is in hard travail, one cuts up the child in her womb and brings it forth member by member, because her life comes before the life of [the child]. But if the greater part has proceeded forth, one may not set aside one person for the sake of saving another."

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