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Right. The only remotely relevant reference, other than the adultery and bitter herbs ritual, which is a little off, is Leviticus establishing the penalty for assaulting a pregnant woman such that she loses the child. The penalty is a sum of damages to the woman's husband. The penalty for murder was death.

So it's VERY clear that Old Testament law does not consider an unborn child to be a legal person, but rather the property of its father, the loss of which warranted compensation (in addition to the penalty for assault and battery if the woman suffered OTHER harm in the attack).

The Bible does not say an unborn child is a person. It explicitly says they are NOT.

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Jennifer R. Povey
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