Wes Groggins didn’t mince words when he testified to a Missouri Senate committee Monday in support of legislation expanding legal protections for embryos.The executive director of Abolish Abortion Missouri invoked the Bible’s Old Testament in his justification that anyone who has an abortion or assi...
  • HailSeitan@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    This doesn’t seem to be a NIV issue.

    When people who are fighting injure a pregnant woman so that there is a miscarriage and yet no further harm follows, the one responsible shall be fined what the woman’s husband demands

    —Exodus 21:22, NRSV

    May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.

    —Numbers 5:22, NRSV

    What translation(s) are referring to that seem to suggest something different?