Abortion in the BibleI am for abortion in most cases. I personally believe that an unborn fetus is not a living being. At the time of birth, when the fetus has come out of the mother's womb and is breathing on its own, then it should be considered a living being according to me. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”? Get an original essay Let me address the religious aspect of abortion since the original author chose to mention it. I did some research on the biblical aspects and was surprised to find some interesting interpretations on the subject. The Bible does not appear to directly address the subject of abortion. Roy Bowen Ward cites two anti-abortion books in his essay on fetal personhood: John T. Noonan (1970) said, “The Old Testament has nothing to say about abortion. » John Connery (1977) said: “If anyone expects to find explicit condemnation of abortion in the New Testament, he will be disappointed. The silence of the New Testament regarding abortion surpasses even that of the Old Testament. » Ward found this silence difficult to understand, because abortion was widely practiced during the New Testament. The Testament Age in the Middle East. The Assyrians had a law regarding voluntary abortions as early as the 12th century BC. On the other hand, some biblical passages could be interpreted as referring to the value of a fetus. But even these suggest that a fetus was less valuable than human life. Here are examples of passages I found that might address this topic: Genesis 2:7 God made Adam's body from the dust of the earth. Later, “man became a living soul” only after God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.” This would imply that Adam's personality began when he took his first breath. Following this reasoning, a newborn becomes human after it begins to breathe; a fetus is only potentially human; an abortion would not end a human life. The most important word in the Hebrew Scriptures used to describe a person was “nephesh”; it appears 755 times in the Old Testament. It is translated as “living soul” in the passage above. One scholar, HW Wolff, believes that the root of the word means "to breathe." He argues that in Old Testament times, “living creatures are thus defined exactly in Hebrew as breathing creatures. » Leviticus 27:6 And if the age is from one month to five years, then your estimate shall be for the man, five shekels of silver, and for the woman, ten shekels. A child only received a value after the age of one month; boys were worth five shekels; three daughters; below this age (and probably before birth), no monetary value was assigned to them. Numbers 3:15 Take a census... including every male a month or older. Only male babies older than one month were considered persons for enumeration purposes. A baby less than a month old and a fetus were apparently not worthy of being counted as human. Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 If a man beget 100 children... and his soul be not filled with good, and he also have no burial; I say a premature birth [a miscarriage] is better than him. The passage implies that a person can have many children and a long life; but if he is not motivated by love and kindness, and if he is not buried properly, then it would have been better if he had been stillborn. The suggestion here is that a terminated pregnancy (a pregnancy that does not produce a live birth) is better than a.