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- From: cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Something's Missing!?
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:44:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.204923.16528@ncsu.edu>, jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu writes:
- |God has warned us of many things but we still ingnore him. What makes
- |you so sure that he has not warned us against abortion?(not saying that
- |he has its just that I haven't read to much of the Bible yet but I feel
- |that abortion is something he would not support).
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- I've read more of the Bible than you have, apparently. I am "so
- sure" that the god of the bible hasn't warned us against
- abortion because the few mentions of abortion in the bible are
- remarkably vague, and consistent with the idea that the god of
- the Israelites thought that abortion was okay.
-
- One passage seems to assess monetary fines for accidental injury
- to a pregnant woman causing a miscarriage or premature birth.
- (Exodus 21:22-25) The other passage seems to require an induced
- miscarriage (aka abortion) in a woman suspected of carrying a
- child not her husband's. (Numbers 5:12-31) The NT seems to have
- nothing to say about abortion, even vaguely.
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- There's some controversy about the Numbers passage, but it
- certainly isn't an explicit "warning against abortion". No such
- warning exists, unlike, say, the clear warnings against eating
- certain foods or wearing fringes on your garments or having sex
- with a menstruating woman.
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- cj@eno.esd.sgi.com C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
- "Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there
- be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than of blind
- faith." --Jefferson (letter to his nephew, Peter Carr)
-