{"id":8028,"date":"2016-02-02T07:04:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T15:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=8028"},"modified":"2016-02-02T07:04:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T15:04:22","slug":"abortion-is-anti-torah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/abortion-is-anti-torah\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion Is Anti-Torah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Exodus <\/b><b>21:22,<\/b> <b><i>Hurt a woman with child.<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i>This passage is one of the strongest pro-life, anti-abortion verses in the Scriptures. Clearly, this passage teaches that life begins in the womb. What was the penalty for a man who was responsible for the death of an unborn child? (See verse 23.) Could any clearer statement be made about how the Creator feels about the sanctity of life? Here are some statistics about abortion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>42 million abortions occur worldwide each year (that\u2019s 115,000 per day).<\/li>\n<li>In 2008, 1.21 million abortions occurred in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>From 1973 to 2008, 50 million legal abortions occurred in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>22 percent of all U.S. pregnancies end in abortion.<\/li>\n<li>In 2007, 84% of all abortions were performed on unmarried women.<\/li>\n<li>At current rates, nearly one-third of American women will have an abortion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Sources of information: abortionno.org\/Resources\/fastfacts.html; guttmacher.org\/pubs\/fb_induced_abortion.html; abort73.com\/abortion_facts\/us_abortion_statistics\/ \u2014 this is now a dead link)<\/p>\n<p>The murder of the innocent children is perhaps the greatest sin that a nation can commit. Abortion is a form of child sacrifice, which is something many ancient cultures practiced (the Aztecs, Incas, Phoenicians, pre-Islamic Arabs, and the biblical Canaanites). In the Bible, YHVH condemns the practice of heathens and apostate Israelites who made their children pass through the fire in worship of the demon-god Moloch (See Lev 18:21; 20:2\u20135; Deut 12:30\u201331; 18:10.) What judgment did YHVH place on the Jewish nation for sacrificing its children to Moloch? (See Jer 7:30\u201334; 32:35\u201336.)<\/p>\n<p>This verse clearly delineates the biblical position that human life begins at conception (see also Ps 139:13\u201316; Jer 1:5; Luke 1:15, 41, 44), not at birth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'Abortion Is Anti-Torah!',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/abortion-is-anti-torah\/',contentID: 'post-8028',suggestTags: 'Abortion,Exodus',providerName: 'Hoshana Rabbah Blog',styling: 'text' });return false\" class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryLink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.evernote.com\/article-clipper.png\" \nclass=\"evernoteSiteMemoryButton\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryClear\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exodus 21:22, Hurt a woman with child. This passage is one of the strongest pro-life, anti-abortion verses in the Scriptures. 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