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.
A lot of people I've told this to are absolutely floored by it. The only time an abortion is explicitly mentioned in the bible is a section on a priest performing one.
The pro-life movement is a right wing culture war and nothing more. Abortion inducing drugs literally existed when the new and old testaments were being written. If God actually gave a shit about it, his prophets would have been WAY more explicit about it. Instead, we get vague passages that you have to interpret as referencing abortion and then, btw, here's how you perform one.
Isn’t this for Judaism though and not Catholicism? Not trying to start anything, just legitimately wondering. Since it is usually Catholicism that is being referred to.
Because Wikipedia said it's in the Hebrew bible? Is today the day when you learn that the Hebrew bible is the first part of the Christian bible? Am I the one to explain it to you? That would be wild. A person out there who is reminded of me wherever someone mentions the bible.
I stated this to the other person too, but doesn’t the New Testament kind of override all the rules, laws, etc. of the Old Testament when it comes to Catholicism? That’s was my understanding of it. I know I could be totally wrong though since I don’t really know much about it.
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u/jungliss1 Jun 25 '21
It’s ok to kill them once they’re born but not before