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Most importantly, perhaps, from the third century A.D. onward, Christian thought was divided as to whether early abortion – the abortion of an "unformed" embryo – was in fact murder. Different sources of church teachings and laws simply did not agree on the penalties for abortion or on whether early abortion is wrong.
[3]: 362–364 The leading early Catholic theologians placed the time when an embryo took form as a human and could receive a soul as between 40 and 80 days; termination of pregnancy before 40 days was a "considerably lesser offense" than a later abortion. [3]: 88–90, 136 [43]: 112
[30] For example, the Code of Hammurabi and the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible provide for penalties for an assault causing miscarriage. [31] The first law prohibiting voluntary abortion appear to be the Middle Assyrian laws, about 500 years after the Code of Hammurabi. These laws provided for impalement and no burial for a woman who "has a ...
Jerusalem Talmud: Sotah. Mishneh Torah: Sefer Nashim, Sotah. In the Hebrew Bible, the ordeal of the bitter water was a Jewish trial by ordeal administered by a priest in the tabernacle to a wife whose husband suspected her of adultery, but the husband had no witnesses to make a formal case. It is described in the Book of Numbers (Numbers 5:11 ...
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 ...
An abortifacient ("that which will cause a miscarriage " from Latin: abortus "miscarriage" and faciens "making") is a substance that induces abortion. This is a nonspecific term which may refer to any number of substances or medications, ranging from herbs [1] to prescription medications. [2]
The only evidence of the death penalty being mandated for abortion in the ancient laws is found in Assyrian Law, in the Code of Assura, c. 1075 BCE; [5] and this is imposed only on a woman who procures an abortion against her husband's wishes. The first recorded evidence of induced abortion is from the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus in 1550 BCE.
Christ and the woman taken in adultery, drawing by Rembrandt. Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the Pericope Adulterae) [a] is a most likely pseudepigraphical [1] passage (pericope) found in John 7:53 – 8:11 [2] of the New Testament. In the passage, Jesus was teaching in the Temple after coming from the Mount of Olives.