re: #7 SanFranciscoZionist

The closest you come to a discussion of abortion in the Hebrew Scriptures is Exodus 21:22, which does not seem to assume fetal personhood, although you can have some very strange arguments about it.

And that is about it. I brought this up once and the answer I got back was that Hebrews of that era had no medial knowhow to perform abortions which I don’t think is true.

The only ancient world anti-abortion statement that I know of from that region comes from the pagan Greek Hippocratic Oath (which is sort of a religious oath). If ancient Greeks were able to perform abortions (and thus requiring an oath to stop the practice) than it is a practice and ability that existed at that era.

PS: I have always wondered if our taboo against abortion is from the adoption of Greek philosophy into Judaism (Philo of Alexandria) since Hellenistic civilization was influencing judaism and out of that came Christianity, a syncratic religion of Judaism and Hellenistic philosophies from the 1st and 2nd centuries.