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Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi9/02/2014 9:56:06 pm PDT

re: #68 sagehen

Does that include Exodus 21:22, wherein God/Moses/whoever’s speaking tells us very explicitly that a fetus is something less than a human being, that killing one is not murder?

In theory it should. But there are always ways around inconvenient details. The original text doesn’t say “the fetus dies”, it says “her fruit departs from her”. It’s relatively easy to fiddle with the translation to minimize the impact of this. For example, the New English Translation turns this into “… her child is born prematurely, but there is no serious injury.”