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ErichZannIII 7 July 7
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Because it is about control, especially controlling women.

The Bible actually condones abortion, and this is with god’s direct endorsement and involvement.

“Now while today’s right-wing Christian fundamentalists hold that life begins at conception, and therefore an abortion done at any stage for any reason at all should be considered murder, the Babylonian Talmud Yevamot 69b states that “the embryo is considered to be mere water until the fortieth day.” For a while after that, it still isn’t considered a fully living being. Rashi, the great twelfth-century commentator on the Bible and Talmud, states clearly of the fetus in Mishnah Oholot 7: 6: “lav nefesh hu”— it is not a person, not until it is born. If a woman was in hard travail [such that her life is in danger], the child must be cut up while it is in the womb and brought out member by member, since the life of the mother has priority over the life of the child; but if the greater part of it was already born, it may not be touched, since the claim of one life cannot override the claim of another life. Note that the above passage describes a partial-birth abortion, and explains how to perform one in accordance with Hebrew religious law. Jewish tradition holds that the fetus is not considered a separate person until the head or most of the body has passed through the birth canal.”

“There are other references to the “breath of life,” where the movement of air is akin to spiritual essence. The traditional belief is that when newborns take their first breath, they are infused with the spirit and become a living being. According to Rav Moshe Feinstein, considered a supreme authority in Orthodox Jewry, Once the head appears, however, and the child is able to breathe independently, he is treated as an entity separate from the mother. He is now independent of the mother’s circulatory and respiratory systems. We grant him the full rights and privileges of an adult. The most important of these privileges is the right to life. From the fortieth day of conception until birth, the fetus is considered to be part of its mother— not a separate entity, but equal to one of her limbs. Sanhedrin 80b of the Talmud describes the fetus as “ubar yerech imo”— the fetus is as the thigh of its mother.

Aron Ra, Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism (p. 62). Pitchstone Publishing.

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Yup, the evangelicals all believe in making women suffer for their supposed bad choices, unless of course, it happens to them or their daughters. It's all about punishing the immoral. Same with poor people, who must be sorted into the deserving and undeserving in order to determine who deserves help from the church. With them as well, it is assumed that most poor people made bad choices that made them poor, so they deserve no help from the government.

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