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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Has God ever stated that a person would be called to account for injury to an unborn child?

Has God ever stated that a person would be called to account for injury to an unborn child?

Ex. 21:22, 23: "In case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner of the woman may lay upon him; and he must give it through the justices. But if a fatal accident should occur, then you must give soul for soul." (Some translations make it look as though that in this law to Israel the most important matter was what happened to the mother, not to the fetus. However, the original Hebrew text refers to a fatal accident to either mother or child.)