So, what's the Bible *actually* say about abortion, conception, and the beginning of life?

Honestly, basically nothing.

DISCLOSURE: The author of these posts, Ari Kohen is an old pal of mine, in addition to being a bona fide poli-sci professor, the director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, and a generally smart cookie.

Running Chicken: The 'biblical view' that's younger than the Happy Meal

In 1979, McDonald's introduced the Happy Meal.

Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.

Ask any American evangelical, today, what the Bible says about abortion and they will insist that this is what it says. . . . They'll be a little fuzzy on where, exactly, the Bible says this, but they'll insist that it does.

That's new. If you had asked American evangelicals that same question the year I was born you would not have gotten the same answer.

Kohen--who, not shockingly for a guy named "Kohen," can speak and read Hebrew--goes on to drop some science on all y'all's square heads in this post: Running Chicken: Serious Biblical Interpretation.