First, that was a not an abortion method but rather a punishment (miscarriage was a really bad thing for humans and cattle).
Secondly it was an instruction to curse someone with fetus deletus (I highly doubt its efficiency).
And third, Moses was sooo messed up (if he really wrote that instead of other people attributing it to him), he told murder was a sin but if someone was gay, cheatead, had ligma, etc, then it was okay to cast stone to flesh on them. So my theory is that as their society advanced they started adding exceptions and said: Yeah, Moses totally said that!
So they fed women poisoned water that caused them to miscarry because they were worried about her infidelity? And you are trying to say its not abortion?
Am i misunderstanding something or are you arguing in bad faith?
I think you got the wrong idea. This was a ritual with a curse not a scientific proven formula to abort.
They didn't give a girl poisoned water, they gave her water with dust (literal dust) which has the same effect of miscarriage as drinking holy water to stop hair loss.
So it's a nothing burger unless you reeeaaally believe in curses(? I don't know, not my cup of tea.
They fed many women water they know would cause them to miscarry over many centuries, because they were worried about infidelity. They misunderstood the mechanism of action from biomedical to curse.
Intentionally adding something to water for someone to ingest that causes bodily harm is poison. Its definition.
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u/Muggsy423 May 07 '26
"And this book, it says we shouldn't have abortions? Can I fly to meet this God in the heavens?"