Is abortion mentioned in the Bible?

Question

Actually, I know it is. Can you cite where? I will be very impressed if someone gets this.

Answer 1

Exo 23:26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days will I fulfil.

Some version use the word 'abortion', some 'miscarrying' and some 'cast their young'

Job 21:10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

NWT
Exodus 23:26 Neither a woman suffering an abortion nor a barren woman will exist in your land. I shall make the number of your days full

Answer 2

I don't know if it is mentioned or not as I have never actually read the bible from cover to cover, just parts of it now and then!

I am sure it is not mentioned as abortion if it is mentioned but some other way of referring to a similar kind of thing if it is indeed mentioned!

But sure miscarriages are mentioned in the bible as they happened back then just as they do today!

I have to say that I am very much against abortion!

After miscarrying 3 children, and not being able to have any more. It is my guess that if they went ahead and had the baby and put it up for adoption, people like myself would be only too willing to give that baby a loving home!
It is a baby from the time you conceive, to the time you give birth!
Having an abortion is killing a new life, however you look at it!!!!!!!1

Answer 3

According to Strong's bible dictionary, there are three words that have some association with abortion: nephel, which means something fallen or extremely sinful and suggests a birth outside of God's timely order; shâkôl (pronounced shaw-kole), a primitive root word suggesting miscarriage, specifically to suffer an abortion; ektrōma (pronounced ek'-tro-mah) which indicates a miscarriage through untimely birth. Each of these words or references appear several times in the Bible. None of them appear in connection with a direct reference to abortion in the context of the forcible termination of a human child through medical procedure. It's mostly used metaphorically to denote the lack of fertility or loss of future child-bearing.

rangedog's reference to Exodus 23:26 is right. It's probably the closest thing to abortion that's mentioned, but - as with all biblical interpretation - it needs to be seen in context within the passage, the preceding and following verses. In this part of Exodus 23, God is basically listing the favour, protection and advantages He will extend to those who obey Him and follow Him, and one of these is "Your women will give birth to healthy children, and everyone will live a long life." In the original language, this is expressed as a double negative: "there shall be nothing that abort/miscarry their young" (paraphrased).

Answer 4

Rangedog is right in that abortion is used in some translations of that verse. But it seems to me that the word "abortion" is used to mean miscarriage. The medical term for miscarriage is "spontaneous abortion." So they weren't referring to intentional abortion. That someone would intentionally kill their unborn child is unthinkable, and I think the people committing it should suffer the same fate as the child. Make it illegal, and yes women will die having back-alley abortions. If they're so desparate to committ murder that they'll risk their own lives in the process, then let them try it and face the consequences.

Answer 5

Out of more than 600 laws of Moses, none comments on abortion. One Mosaic law about miscarriage specifically contradicts the claim that the bible is antiabortion, clearly stating that miscarriage does not involve the death of a human being. If a woman has a miscarriage as the result of a fight, the man who caused it should be fined. If the woman dies, however, the culprit must be killed:

"If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

"And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth . . ."--Ex. 21:22-25

The bible orders the death penalty for murder of a human being, but not for the expulsion of a fetus.

Answer 6

not sure directly... but there is a place where if youcause the accidental death of a preborn in the law there are penalties
this is not the same as todays abortion on demand

I do agree that when the preborn John the Baptist lept for joy in the pressense of the preborn Messiah that is pretty clear that they were talking about people in their mothers womb and not merely organs

Answer 7

Sort of. In Hosea, it speaks of unborn babies being cut from the mothers' wombs.
Of course, the mothers don't want their babies cut from their wombs and the people who do it get zapped by YHWH, but that's the closest it gets to what we know as abortion.

Answer 8

Closest thing I know of is Ex 21:22.

Other scripture refers to children being sacrificed to molech, but they are already born.

Answer 9

Rangedog has the answer,and for those of you that say that it isn't mentioned,just read the only book that there really is a "The Holy Bible."


Rev.James Grant

Answer 10

Actually it doesn't actually say "abortion" but I recall this passage:

41 It happened, when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, that the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

42 She called out with a loud voice, and said, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

And people say that it's about "quickening" and that the baby is therefore alive and moving and reacting and shouldn't be killed. Also the comandment about not killing, duh... but that one isn't specific.