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  2. Ordeal of the bitter water - Wikipedia

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    one account is the ordeal and sacrifice before God, in which the possible miscarriage/abortion results from drinking the potion; [42] the other is merely a condemnation by a priest, in which the woman stands with hair loosened, her guilt is assumed, and divine intervention (due to the priest's involvement) will cause a miscarriage/abortion as ...

  3. Christianity and abortion - Wikipedia

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    Jehovah's Witnesses hold a strong anti-abortion stance, based on their interpretation of the Bible, and view abortion as a serious sin tantamount to murder. [69] They believe that deliberately inducing an abortion where the "sole purpose of which is to avoid the birth of an unwanted child" is an "act of high crime" in the eyes of God. [70]

  4. Religion and abortion - Wikipedia

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    The Torah contains the law that, "When men fight, and one of them pushes a pregnant woman, and a miscarriage results, but no other misfortune, the one responsible shall be fined...but if other misfortune ensues, the penalty shall be life (nefesh) for life (nefesh)." (Exodus 21:22–25). That is, causing a woman to miscarry is a crime, but not a ...

  5. Bible, abortion rights, social issues drew Henderson County ...

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    The 18-year-old said her motivations to vote were abortion rights and Project 2025. "They kind of terrified me and the women in my family," Tidwell said. "Just wanted to do my part."

  6. Judaism and abortion - Wikipedia

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    There is no direct reference in the Hebrew Bible to an intentional termination of pregnancy.. Numbers 5:11–31 refers to the Ordeal of the bitter water, which has been interpreted by some biblical commentators as an ordeal that produces a miscarriage in an unfaithful wife, thus verifying or falsifying a charge of adultery.

  7. Bleeding and in pain, a woman endured a harrowing wait for ...

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    Texas enacted an abortion ban in 2021, and the rate of maternal deaths there increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, according to the Gender Equity Policy Institutes’ analysis of data from the US ...

  8. Montana lawmaker: There's a religious right to abortion - AOL

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    Abortion rights groups are challenging abortion bans in some states by arguing the bans — supported by certain religious principles — violate the religious rights of people with different beliefs.

  9. Abortion and the Catholic Church in the United States

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    Following the 1968 publication of Humanae Vitae, an encyclical by Pope Paul VI that expressly forbade abortion and most methods of birth control [9] and that sowed controversy within the church over its restatement of the prohibition on birth control, [10] Catholic bishops in the United States started to stress anti-abortion views as a central facet of Catholic identity and preached against ...