Originally posted by Tassman
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"There is one Talmudic passage in which a Greek philosopher presses a rabbi on this issue until–probably for the sake of peace with the Greek occupiers of the Land of Israel--the rabbi accedes to the prevailing view in Greek culture that the soul is present from conception. This concession did not, however, change the Jewish perspective that the activation of the fetus’s status as a human with full human rights still occurs upon birth."
Notice how she changed from claiming the soul is not present until birth to "full human rights upon birth" - nice piece of slight of hand there.
The Jews believed God put together the person in the womb, giving it life and already has plans for that individual. So any killing of a fetus would be a sin, disrupting God's plan. So they were against abortion.
Psalm 139:13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
And they believed that the fetus was aware while in the womb as illustrated in Luke 1 Where Mary goes to visit Elizabeth who is pregnant with John:
44As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 45Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!”
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