It is also not clear exactly what the word injury in these verses means. It could mean an injury that occurs to the pregnant woman, the unborn child, or both. One way to interpret the passage is that if the woman is caused to have an early delivery, then the penalty is a fine, but any further injury to the child is covered under the lex talionis law of “an eye for an eye.”281 Indeed, the text refers to a “child” coming forth, and this is a difficult fact for pro-choice commentators to evade.
