I will deal with facts here, look at a fetus at 12 weeks you can google it, tell me thats not a human being..if you can say thats not a human being there your either dillusional or a professional liar. Many of the practices in the abortion industry are an abomination.
This is by sight and we can do so through medical technological achievements. However, the science is clear. We know we are distinct (from the parents) human beings by DNA and more specifically by chromosomes at the moment of fertilization. These are biological facts. We are small human beings at that point but human beings. We are exactly what we are supposed to be at that point in human development.
Now I am going to tell other Christians here a simple fact, god does not acknowlege an unborn child as a human being in the bible. Gods says it, if you cause a woman to lose her child you have to pay her a fine for the loss, if you kill a human being god says you are to be put to death. So Christians I am sorry according to the bible its not murder.
That is an assertion and not a fact. Miscarriage nor abortion appears in the Hebrew text in Exodus 21:22-25. The language used is that this is a live birth which is premature. Let's look at the text involved:
Exodus 21: King James Version (KJV)
22 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.
23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Now another word for word literal translation from a modern English version.
Exodus 21: NASB
"If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide. But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
Exodus 21:22-25 NASB
http://bible.com/100/exo.21.22-25.NASB
Now we take a look at the Hebrew lexicon.
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.
So that her fruit:
Hebrew: יֶלֶד yeled
The KJV translates Strongs H3206 in the following manner:child (72x), young man (7x), young ones (3x), sons (3x), boy (2x), fruit (1x), variant (1x).
child, son, boy, offspring, youth
- child, son, boy
- child, children
- descendants
- youth
Yeled is not not miscarriage nor still birth, it's a live child.
Is there a Hebrew word for miscarriage and stillborn? Yes and it is not Yeled.
Exodus 23: KJV
26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
The above now in the Hebrew lexicon:
שָׁכֹל shakol
The KJV translates Strongs H7921 in the following manner:bereave (10x),barren(2x), childless (2x), cast young(2x), cast a calf (1x), lost children (1x),rob of children(1x), deprived (1x), misc (5x).
שָׁכֹלshâkôl, shaw-kole'; a primitive root; properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively):—bereave (of children), barren, cast calf (fruit, young), be (make) childless, deprive, destroy, × expect, lose children, miscarry, rob of children, spoil.
So we can see shakol is not used in Exodus 21:22ff.
Yaled is alive; shakol is miscarriage.
Now my stance, a fetus is a human being and and abortion is murder in my personal oppinon.
It should stay legal in only two cases, one if a woman is a victim of rape and even then it to be in the first 2 or 3 months, take into account shock but if you wait 6 months then decide you want an abortion..thats sick because at 6 months the child can survive with medical assistancce.
How does rape justify the termination (killing) of an innocent human life in the womb? The act of terrible violence against the woman happened due to a rapist and not the human being in the womb. The rapist gets what? Maybe 7 years if apprehended and convicted of the crime. Goes to jail gets three hot meals a day, a cot, and cable television. May even get out in 3.5 years or sooner for "good behavior."
What did the child do to get a death sentence?
Secondly for medical reason such as the mother not being able to carry to term...case in point a woman in ireland was miscarrying and they would not remove the baby cause the heart was beating, the child was dead short of jesus christ coming down from the heavens that baby was going to die. But they waited for heart to stop..she got an inffection because of it and died.
If the child still had a heartbeat then he/she was not dead. However the death of Savita Halappanavar was a medical malpractice case as the doctors did not treat her sepsis. The medical inquiry showed Galway hospital missed 13 opportunities to properly diagnose and treat her. It had nothing to do with the then strict Irish abortion laws.
More here:
Ireland’s abortion lobby is lying about this pregnant woman’s death to push their cause
Of course the abortion lobby and liberal media selected their 'facts' and did not bother reporting the full story.
In the U.S. the life of the pregnant woman was in law in all 50 states before Roe vs. Wade. Roe vs. Wade was about abortion on demand for any reason.
Christians your stance on abortion is not a religious issue...its moral personal one so get over the god says it abortion bit cause he done not consider and unborn child a human being according to the bible..sorry
Another assertion. I already posted on Exodus 21:22-26, therefore you are operating from an invalid premise. In fact God communicates that innocent blood or life is very important to Him:
Innocent Blood
Deu 19:10
That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
Deu 19:13
Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
Deu 21:8
Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
Deu 21:9
So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
1Sa 19:5
For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
1Ki 2:31
And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
2Ki 21:16
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
2Ki 24:4
And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
Psa 94:21
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Psa 106:38
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Pro 6:17
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Isa 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Jer 7:6
If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
Jer 22:3
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Jer 22:17
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Jer 26:15
But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
Joe 3:19
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Jon 1:14
Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
Mat 27:4
Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
There is a lot more I could post on what you question in your posts. Recommend a deeper study into the science and theological considerations of Abortion and provide scientific peer study reviews, theological papers and arguments below:
Life Begins at Fertilization – Peer Reviewed Scientific Sources « The Fetal Position
Associates for Biblical Research - Lex Talionis and the Human Fetus
What Exactly is ‘Constitutional Personhood’? The Definition of Personhood and Its Role in the Life Debate
The Abortion Wars: What Most Christians Don’t Know
The fetus in biblical law
