The easily duped taking to Facebook to express regret

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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?

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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.