Missouri's only abortion clinic to challenge state shutdown order

Most people when confronted with this passage and the Jewish interpretations of it throughout history... don’t.

I understand that entirely, and it is bothersome. This coming from a, still evangelical christian.

certainly all translations of the last 300 years have agendas

Agreed. While I'm not a biblical scholar, I have spent several years between academia and personal study on the Bible, I've been quite pleased with the ESV as compared to Latin. Unfortunately I never learned greek to read the original text. This is why my original quoted passage used this translation.

disagree on the modern evangelical interpretation of this verse

Honestly, I'd have to disagree with evangelical interpretation entirely based on context. As I mentioned before, it's a chapter on slave law, which closer to indentured servitude, but was largely considered property law. Don't construe this as me being pro slavery, I'm not. I just don't think this chapter is related to things "holy" in nature.

A much more applicable passage for anti-abortion for me comes from Jeremiah 1:4-5

Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you

Literally defining person-hood as within the womb where you're formed. Ultimately, abortion/anti-abortion to me just comes to drawing a line where personhood is definied. It always puts me at a cross roads when it comes to abortion. I view it as first degree murder. If you take the view point of the fetus as human life then there's no alternative as far as I can tell. So I definitely don't fit in the pro-choice camp. I also think we should have public health, sexual education, and childcare funding... so I don't fit in the pro-life camp either. It's frustrating.

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