• JAM@reddthat.com
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    Modern Christianity seems to prohibit abortion. Historical and modern Judaism seems fine with abortion.

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      Judaism puts health and safety of individuals over anything else, including the religion. A doctor can work on the shabbos if someone’s life is in need, a mother can get an abortion if their life is in danger, and a starving man can eat pork if it is the only sustenance they have.

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      Judaism isn’t really fine with abortion. Just allows it in certain situations, especially if the mothers health in in danger.

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        Judaism believes the soul enters the body when the body takes its first breath, where Christianity believes the soul enters at conception.

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      The King James Bible actually gives advice on how to abort a baby if it was conceived out of wedlock. Not to mention all the time it said life begins at the first breath. It seems to be more about controlling women than anything else.

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          The idea about breath is common in the old testament, Adam for example was given the “breath of life” and that was the moment he was considered alive. Just like the phrase “know in your heart” indicated that they believed human consciousness resided in the chest, they also thought breath was the indicator of life.

          The Numbers text was supposedly a test from God to see if a wife had been unfaithful, and that’s what Christians will no doubt claim about it, but in reality it’s instructions on how to create a poison that WILL cause a miscarriage and then claim that it’s God telling them she was unfaithful.

          The one verse they use to support pro life isn’t even an actual doctrinal idea. It’s a poem from the book of Proverbs where the prophet Jeremiah was singing about how God had a plan for his life from the very beginning. Nothing about it is intended to be used as a medical interpretation about where and how life starts.