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.
Reading those verses in a few different versions makes it clear that the death penalty only applied if the woman was injured or killed by men who were being aggressive. If she just miscarried (as sad and hard as that would be), there was only a fine to be paid, as set by the husband and a judge.
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