Is it possible to be a Christian, Jew, or Muslim and be pro-choice? (user search)
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« on: September 22, 2017, 09:15:26 PM »

Sure. The Bible never mentions abortion, in fact the Old Testament specifically prescribes different penalties for murder and causing a woman to lose a child, with the latter carrying a lesser penalty. St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas sensibly did not think fetuses had souls before they were "animated." That is a primitive way at getting at the idea that possession of person is dependent on first consciousness, and without a chain of consciousness there is no person.
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