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Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court::IVF often produces more embryos than are needed or used.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (12 children)

The Bible doesn't really say anything about abortion. The most convincing thing I've seen is that it values the life of a mother over that a fetus, but it doesn't say abortion is okay. Unless I'm missing something.

Not that it matters what this book says, I just don't think it helps at all to misrepresent it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Numbers 5:11-22

If your wife is unfaithful, she should go to the priest and get a concoction to abort the pregnancy conceived with another man.

[+] [email protected] -20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

It does not say or imply that at all. Maybe in some translations/adaptations/interpretations, but not in most of them, and there is no full consensus.

[–] TaterTurnipTulip 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It always strikes me as interesting that if the Bible truly was divinely inspired that there really should only be one translation and one interpretation. It should be incredibly clear and concise to everyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Even if it was truly was, humans are still faillible:

the texts are transcripted thousands of times, and errors made during transcriptions are eventually reproduced.
the texts can be modified voluntarily during retranscriptions, maliciously or not.
parts of texts are lost and found again.
texts reference other extinct texts or what was considered common knowledge that was not written down. So we can only infer from there.
Hebrew uses an abjab alphabet, which means no vowels, so certain written words can be different depending on what vowels you ascribe to them.
texts are translated by people with biases and objectives as to what it should convey (like the US Evangelicals with the NIV).
etc.

So even if the original text was given divinely, it would end up being distorted.

This is why I'm not comfortable saying the Bible is okay with abortion. It can be interpreted that way, for sure, but it's not a definite statement.

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