The Bible supports abortion

[perdita9]

It's true. The topic of abortion appears exactly once in the Bible, in Numbers, chapter 5, verses 19-28.

A man thinks his wife committed adultery so he brings her to a priest. The priest makes her swallow 'the water of bitterness' (in some versions it's 'the bitter water that brings the curse' i.e. menstrual cycle) and says a prayer over her. If she's guilty of adultery, she'll have 'untimely birth and miscarriage'.

The water of bitterness is clearly an abortifacient --so how can 'religious' companies claim that god is against abortifacients?

[trotsky]

1. Answer: because they don't interpret it the way you do.

http://www.gotquestions.org/Numbers-abortion.html

[hrmjustin]

2. Interesting, I have never heard of that bible verse before.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. the bible supports whatever you want it to support.

It is a bunch of nonsense fairy tales from a long gone era of human society. Religious authority figures and powerful institutions use it to justify whatever agenda they wish to pursue.

[longship]

4. Yup! That's been called the Bible as ventriloquist dummy.

A common apologist technique.

[safeinOhio]

5. Between 30,000 and 40,000

Christian sects in the world today and each one has a different take on what the Bible says, means or what it "really means".

[perdita9]

7. That alone implies the Bible is flawed

Anything divinely inspired should be clear to anyone who reads it. The fact that the verses are open to 'spin' shows the bible is not divinely inspired but a creation of man.

[Lordquinton]

6. The bible is also very firm on it's stance on murdering babys

so if you don't abort, god is pretty ok with doing it after the fact.

[perdita9]

8. True, the bible is definitely not pro-child

I've shown those verses to religious people -- the ones calling for children's heads to be dashed on rocks -- and they're always appalled. You'd think someone so bent on thumping the bible would know what's in it.