{"id":45928,"date":"2014-10-14T09:27:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T15:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/on-abortion-and-the-bible.html"},"modified":"2014-10-14T09:27:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T15:27:45","slug":"on-abortion-and-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/on-abortion-and-the-bible.html","title":{"rendered":"On abortion and the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether or not Biblical teaching should be the be-all and end-all of the abortion debate (my answer: no), it&#39;s important to realize that the Bible itself does not send a clear, consistent, unarguable message about abortion within its pages. In it, life is often deemed to begin upon taking breath; children are counted (for census or taxation) only after a month old; induced miscarriages don&#39;t count as serious injury; testing for adultery is proven when the priest&#39;s ritual causes a miscarriage; etc.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of factors involved in the debate about abortion in general, as well as any individual woman&#39;s decision about it. Pretending that Scripture provides cut-and-dried guidance doesn&#39;t help anyone.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080\" oid=\"103748887870095862080\">Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/americablog.com\/2014\/10\/god-pro-choice.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/MTsLX42B_iiWE-_3qJuqOKo_Ntk6Wx34SSgEDMjMKKPw1JS0zhY3-SXq2R6oYUcl35CueWvoeD6wNbW4Z4Y6TMyg-CV_bCS7sCbJTZ3A1bWfwgtTZJx_OaoEF3qMzPpdEg=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/americablog.com\/2014\/10\/god-pro-choice.html'>God is pro-choice<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe Bible displays a great deal of nuance in addressing questions of life, but at its core, the Bible shows that God is pro-choice.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cGZqQNuBC91'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether or not Biblical teaching should be the be-all and end-all of the abortion debate (my answer: no), it&#39;s important to realize that the Bible itself does not send a clear, consistent, unarguable message about abortion within its pages. In it, life is often deemed to begin upon taking breath; children are counted (for census &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/on-abortion-and-the-bible.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On abortion and the Bible&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51487,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/17\/abortion-is-down-but-not-because-of-anti-abortion-laws.html","url_meta":{"origin":45928,"position":0},"title":"Abortion is down, but not because of anti-abortion laws","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Jun-15 7:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"Instead, it seems largely because pregnancy rates are down -- and that's apparently due to increased use of birth control (esp. by teens and by women in areas with stricter abortion laws, facilitated by the contraceptive coverage in the ACA, and encouraged by the Great Recession). The Abortion Rate Is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":50529,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/the-abortion-debate-the-devil-is-in-the-details.html","url_meta":{"origin":45928,"position":1},"title":"The Abortion Debate: The Devil Is in the Details","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-May-15 8:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting survey work here that drills into when people feel abortion should, or should not, be legal. It finds that absolutists (it should always be [not] legal) soften when asked about particular circumstances -- e.g., rape, the threatened death of the mother, or using abortion to control for the gender\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13322,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/22\/a_most_difficult_question.html","url_meta":{"origin":45928,"position":2},"title":"A most difficult question","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-Jan-09 9:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"I found this video fascinating. Some anti-abortion protesters were individually asked whether abortion should be illegal. Well, duh, they said yes. Then they were asked what sort of punishment a...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38125,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/abortion-bans-and-public-opinion.html","url_meta":{"origin":45928,"position":3},"title":"Abortion bans and public opinion","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Jul-13 11:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A major problem in the whole current abortion debate is that Americans are deeply conflicted about the procedure, and that conflict is intensified when timescales are thrown in. So while the \"pro-life\" ideologues want abortion banned outright, and the extremists on the \"pro-choice\" side want abortion on demand to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30900,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/26\/john-scalzi-on-rape-and-abortion.html","url_meta":{"origin":45928,"position":4},"title":"John Scalzi on rape and abortion","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 26-Oct-12 6:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"John addresses an aspect of the debate that politicians who oppose abortion in case of rape may not have thought of. 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