But these verses would prove only that abortion is acceptable if God kills a child conceived in adultery. They would not justify legal abortion performed by a human being for any reason at any stage of pregnancy. Plus, God’s killing of a child conceived in adultery would no more disprove that child’s humanity than God’s act of killing David or Pharaoh’s firstborn sons would disprove those children’s humanity. God is allowed to end human life; we are not. Finally, as Francis Beckwith notes, the passage does not seem to refer to the water causing a miscarriage but to causing the woman no longer
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