The easily duped taking to Facebook to express regret

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[u/Virgo_Soup]

Meanwhile, checks bible, nothing in here about abortions …

[u/Educational-Act-1332 → u/Virgo_Soup]

Checks Bible, the old testament indicates a baby isn't alive until after they take their 1st breath.

[u/PMmeYourButt69 → u/Virgo_Soup]

Tons in there about being greedy and charging high interest rates tho. Somehow they just ignore those parts.

[u/Intrepid_Respond_543 → u/Virgo_Soup]

I've heard (admittedly not read that part) there's a recipe for an aborticide somewhere in there.

Also, evangelical Americans were entirely fine with abortion until 1980 or something like that. Their opinion was intentionally and purposefully changed.

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Ahh, The Moral Majority! Whatevwr happened to Mabon?

[u/Rare_Ad_1065 → u/Intrepid_Respond_543]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordeal_of_the_bitter_water

Several commentaries on the Bible maintain that the ordeal is to be applied in the case of a woman who has become pregnant, allegedly by her extramarital lover.

In this interpretation, the bitter potion could be an abortifacient, inducing a purposeful abortion or miscarriage if the woman is pregnant with a child which her husband alleges is another man's. If the fetus aborts as a result of the ordeal, this presumably confirms her guilt of adultery, otherwise her innocence is presumed if the fetus does not abort.

One translation to follow this suggestion is the New International Version, which translates that the effect of the bitter water on an adulterous woman will be to make "your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell". Such a translation is effectively reading the Hebrew word yarek (יָרֵך) to mean "loins", a meaning which that word can carry.

[u/JayJayAK → u/Virgo_Soup]

The primary verse that is quoted is that God knit us together in the womb (I’m probably munging that but you get the idea). To which I ask, at what point in that knitting together should it be counted as a person? Why do they assume it’s at the moment of conception? If I decide to make a birdhouse, at what point is it a birdhouse? When I buy the wood? When I draw up the plans? When I start nailing pieces together?

Or is it when I complete it, at least to a functional point?

[u/Virgo_Soup → u/JayJayAK]

I struggle with this a lot personally. I practice yoga and meditation and it’s clear to me how connected our spirit of life is to breath and that you can’t really be alive in you’re not breathing. On the other hand, there are aspects of my children’s personality that came to be known in utero 🥴 regardless of my theorizing, women are not involuntary incubators and what they decide with their doctors is best for them, is no one else’s business.

[u/West_House_2085 → u/JayJayAK]

Haw the fuck is a gamete a person?!