"Captain Cassidy":- What I want to do is present the following verses and stories in the context of what I would have made of them when I was a true-blue Christian. These are some of the Bible verses and stories that I personally wish I’d seen while I was involved in the religion myself–but didn’t. The list is presented with that unique kind of clarity that only hindsight can provide.
The God of the Bible doesn’t give a wet slap about abortion, fetuses, children, women, or families. He does not care about this nebulous culture of life nonsense, either.
That said: Do you know what he really hates?
Personal agency. Bodily ownership. Self-sovereignty.
CONSENT.
Always, most of all, forever, the right of consent over one’s own body’s use. Bodily ownership is these women’s ultimate sin, and that’s why these culture warriors concentrate on making the penalties for abortion as dizzyingly high and as obscenely-punitive as possible.
A big part of effectively lowering abortion rates involves getting out of the way of women’s personal decisions, which is exactly why these culture warriors can’t ever make that their goal. No, the real goal for culture warriors is owning women’s bodies again. And the Bible is right on board with them there.