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In a fit of self-righteousness, sabre wrote: >Well tod maybe those rednecks don't know thier bible....I do.A "fetus" >is alive. So's an ant. >Show me a scripture where it is stated that life begins when the >first breath is taken. It's in the very language. For instance, the Greek word for "soul" is pneuma. This is also the word for "breath"; if there was a difference you would have expected all the apostles and later translators to have and use a different word. As long as you're arguing scripture rather than evidence, what more do you need? > The only verse that even deals with this issue > is. > Ex 21:22 > 22 "If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit > depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely > punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he > shall pay as the judges determine". > KJV Right. Cause a miscarriage (kill a fetus), pay a fine. (Serious premies died in those days.) > This verse in no way justifies calling a "fetus" a piece of tissue. Quite the opposite, it demands it. If you kill a person (even a child), the law you cite has a very different punishment. Anyone reading this has to conclude that a fetus is not a person. Note also that the penalty is paid *to the husband*. In other words the fetus is HIS property, presumably to be disposed of as he sees fit. According to this interpretation of the Old Testament a man ought to be able to demand a fine of a woman who aborts his fetus, or perhaps even require her to abort (if it's HIS property, he can tell her what to do with it). > Can you point to another one? If that's the only one you can find, your position is in deep trouble.
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