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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 1 decade ago

Did the bible ever talk about abortion?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    The bible teaches that life begins at conception, which proves that abortion is murder. ---------------------------

  • It's been a long time since I read any religious texts, but I understand they condone abortion for a male fetus of less than 40 days and a female fetus of less than 90 days. How they would have known the gender that early in the pregnancy without the technology of today is anyone's guess.

    And the commandment is "thou shalt not murder", as plenty of killing--heck, plenty of murder--goes on in the bible. Murder is an act done with malice; killing is not. There is no malice involved in terminating a pregnancy; ergo, abortion is not murder.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The bible talks about killing, in which is one of the commandments. When you have an abortion, your killing a life.

  • 1 decade ago

    Nope. No mention of abortions whatsoever, even though they had been occuring LONG before biblical times.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Specifically as we know it today? No. But the Bible DOES have plenty of references to show it does not consider a fetus a human deserving of protection or life. I think someone else has already posted all of it, so I will leave my answer at that.

  • 1 decade ago

    yes it wrong to kill infants

    Exo 21:22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

    Exo 21:23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

    Exo 21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

    this covers abortion

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes. The bible gives instructions on chemical abortions in the book of Numbers.

    It also does not put monetary value on any human under one month of age.

    It also tells warriors to slice open the wombs of their enemies, and bash babies heads in.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Yes.

    Leviticus 20:3

    I myself will turn against such a man and cut him off from the body of his people; for giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.

  • 1 decade ago

    Abortion is murder.

    A fetus is a little one, but you need to ask, "Little what?"

    Little fish? Little bird? Or little person?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOR1wUqvJS4

    Exodus 21 declares that it is a life. Someone else quoted the passage above.

    Source(s): 43+ years following a Jewish Carpenter & studying His Book!
  • 1 decade ago

    at the time it was written there was no such thing. maybe women knew of herbs to take to cause a miscarriage but that was risky at best, and men wouldn't know anything about it. so, not knowing it would ever exist, my guess would be no!

  • 1 decade ago

    No, but it does say life starts at conception. Therefore abortion is killing unborn human children. So we dislike it.

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