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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 ...
Selected Bible verses and perspectives Passage Perspective allowing abortion Perspective against abortion Genesis 2:7 (Garden of Eden narrative, see also Soul in the Bible § Genesis 2:7) - "Then the L ORD [note 1] God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being".
This verse follows immediately after the prohibition against murder, and the Sermon follows this same pattern. The equation of lust with adultery is very similar to the earlier equation of anger and murder in Matthew 5:22. Like the previous verse this is often interpreted as Jesus expanding on the requirements of Mosaic Law, but not rejecting it.
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 ...
Pregnant women like Brittany Watts, 33, have increasingly found themselves charged with “crimes against their own pregnancies,” a San José […] The post A Black woman was criminally charged ...
A few days later, a roundup of celebrity “abortion stories” in the Hollywood Reporter included two accounts by actors who falsely describe medical care they received after miscarriage as abortion.
The New International Version translates the passage as: But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. The New American Bible translates this passage as: But I say to you, whoever divorces his wife (unless the
Avery Davis Bell suffered a second-trimester miscarriage. While she lay bleeding in a hospital bed, she had to wait for life-saving care, she said.