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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".
On the other side, abortion-rights groups say that criminalizing abortion will lead to the deaths of many women through "back-alley abortions", that unwanted children have a negative social impact, or conversely cite the legalized abortion and crime effect, and that reproductive rights are necessary to achieve the full and equal participation ...
From the 4th to 16th Century AD, Christian philosophers, while maintaining the condemnation of abortion as wrong, had varying stances on whether abortion was murder. Under the first Christian Roman emperor Constantine , there was a relaxation of attitudes toward abortion and exposure of children. [ 1 ]
Ethics in the Bible refers to the system(s) or theory(ies) produced by the study, interpretation, and evaluation of biblical morals (including the moral code, standards, principles, behaviors, conscience, values, rules of conduct, or beliefs concerned with good and evil and right and wrong), that are found in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles.
Evangelical confusion about the Republican party’s anti-abortion messaging began to set in ahead of the Republican convention, when the party endorsed a platform that says abortion is best left ...
A Defense of Abortion is a moral philosophy essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1971. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the right to life does not include, entail, or imply the right to use someone else's body to survive and that induced abortion is therefore morally ...
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.
Anti-abortion supporters argue that abortion is morally wrong on the basis that a fetus is an innocent human person [79] or because a fetus is a potential life that will, in most cases, develop into a fully functional human being. [80] They believe that a fetus is a person upon conception.