If your religion is against abortion...?

God is the world's most prolific abortionists. Anyone who wanted to put a huge dent in abortion would ban god, not abortions.

Abortion, I realize, is wrong from the Biblical standpoint, for it is deliberately taking life. I understood that Exodus 21:22, 23 supported this fact. But recently I read a Bible version that gives these verses a different meaning. What do the verses really say and mean?

The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures renders Exodus 21:22, 23: “And in case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner of the woman may lay upon him; and he must give it through the justices. But if a fatal accident should occur, then you must give soul for soul.”

Some other translations, though, render this passage in such a way that someone might conclude that abortion is not so serious. For example, the Revised Standard Version reads: “When men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no harm follows, the one who hurt her shall be fined. . . . If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life.” The impression that one could get is that the only serious concern is for the woman, not the fetus. Someone might conclude from such a translation that if the hurt caused an abortion but no other damage to the woman, the guilty man was simply to be fined. So, abortion might not seem serious.

It's always going to be complicated when someone tries to apply 'reason' to 'faith/belief'... it's really comparing apples and oranges. One generally has little to do with the other.

The idea of most mainstream religions that there is a greater 'force/being/consciousness' that sees more of the game board that you or I do kinda precludes the rational analysis of policy. Not to pick a side at all in the discussion and just look at the structure itself - imagine a chessboard, where each piece knows how it's allowed to move... and how each of it's fellow pieces are allowed to move.

You could say that the diagonal moves of the bishop, or the single square move of the king would ALL seem like arbitrary 'rules' or 'commandments' to the actual pieces... and could understand if the sacrifice of a pawn (or any other piece) could seem arbitrary and/or unfair. But the player who sees the whole board could be moving the pieces according to a strategy... one that would ultimately win the game.

Again... I don't have a dog in this fight... just thinking about your question. YOU choosing to move on your own wouldn't be the same as the being who's seeing the whole human playing field making a move... even if the moves seems similar to yours, the king.

with religion, it's all about belief... which it seems shouldn't be equated with reason. Square peg - round hole. You can sometimes make them fit... but not how they're supposed to.

Good luck finding your answers!

God does not cause spontaneous miscarriages. These are an health/genetic-related issue

In general they occur when the body senses that the fetus is not viable.

What if the parents' loss helped someone else who went through the same thing? What if it leads someone to religion? Everything has an effect on everything around it. It may suck when you look at it by itself, but it may lead to something beautiful in the bigger picture.

Because life belongs to God. He gives and he takes away. That is why there are so many botched abortions where the aborted babies are still fighting to live. There are people actually living in this world that were botched abortions.

God does not cause spontaneous abortions

You claim to be someone who uses his head to think "critically," to use your inane term, but you were too intellectually inept to provide any examples of what you mean by spontaneous abortions.

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your cat ate your kittens, that is all i am giving you, the rest is up to you

Miscarriages are an act of nature... abortions are an act of man.