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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".
The Hebrew Bible has a few references to abortion; Exodus 21:22-25 addresses miscarriage by way of another's actions, which it describes as a non-capital offense punishable through a fine. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] The Book of Numbers in the Hebrew Bible describes the Ordeal of the bitter water ( sotah ) to be administered by a priest to a wife whose ...
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.
Some writers state that there is evidence that some early Christians believed, as the Greeks did, in delayed ensoulment, or that a fetus does not have a soul until quickening, and therefore early abortion was not murder; [1] Luker says there was disagreement on whether early abortion was wrong. [3] Other writers say that early Christians ...
The official teachings of the Catechism of the Catholic Church promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1992 oppose all forms of abortion procedures whose direct purpose is to destroy a zygote, blastocyst, embryo or fetus, since it holds that "human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.
A federal judge was not swayed Monday in a Columbia courtroom by Biblical arguments that the defendant, Steven Lefemine, had a God-given right to block an entrance to an abortion clinic.
By LISA LOZANO ETonline The Duggar family of TLC's "19 Kids and Counting" has never been shy about expressing their strict religious beliefs, and Jessa Duggar ruminated on Instagram recently about ...
The Woman's Bible, a 19th-century feminist reexamination of the bible, criticized the passage as sexist. Contributor Lucinda Banister Chandler writes that the prohibition of women from teaching is "tyrannical" considering that a large proportion of classroom teachers are women, and that teaching is an important part of motherhood.