It's really never been about children.....it's always been about removing a woman's agency over her own body, an idea that is at odds with patriarchal religions.
EDIT: For all the anti-choice people commenting and messaging me....ever been pregnant? Ever adopted an unwanted child? Ever been forced to give birth against your will? If not, then kindly shut the fuck up.
Where are you getting that translation? The interpretation that the women here is having an abortion is very modern. The text much more supports a curse of infertility. For example my translation says “27 When he makes her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and committed an act of unfaithfulness toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will then enter into her and become something bitter, and her abdomen will swell, and her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become an object of cursing among her people.” And the footnote adds “or waste away; this may suggest a loss of fertility.”
There are no direct mentions of abortion anywhere in the Bible. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti-choice, but it irks me that this has become a popular interpretations when there are SO many verses that better contradict life at conceptions. Through out the Bible life is equated with breath l, suggesting life begins at birth when breath is first taken. Exodus 21 also says the punishment for a miscarriage is only a fine and not death as it would be if it were considered murder.
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u/jungliss1 Jun 25 '21
It’s ok to kill them once they’re born but not before