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Where are there bible passages about abortion?
Here's what the bible says about abortion:
Abortion is not murder. A fetus is not considered a human life.
- Exodus 21:22-23:
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life.
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The Bible places no value on fetuses or infants less than one month old.
- Leviticus 27:6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.:
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Fetuses and infants less than one month old are not considered persons.
- Numbers 3:15-16:
Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD.
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God sometimes approves of killing fetuses.
- Numbers 31:15-17:
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? ... Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
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Note that there is no distinction for sparing pregnant women.
- Hosea 9:14:
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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- Hosea 9:16:
Yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
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- Hosea 13:16:
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
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God sometimes kills newborn babies to punish their parents.
- 2 Samuel 12:14:
Because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
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God sometimes causes abortions by cursing unfaithful wives.
- Numbers 5:21-21, 27-28:
The priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell. And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen... And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people. And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
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God's law sometimes requires the execution (by burning to death) of pregnant women.
- Genesis 38:24:
Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
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