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mk  ·  4668 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Anti Abortion: The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal
I had to look at Exodus 21:22. It seems dependent upon the translation, and the interpretation. For instance, if you read the King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.), you have:

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.

"Depart" sounds like the fetus might have died. But in the New American Standard Bible, you have:

If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.

That sounds more like no injury to the fetus. But, in the King James 2000 Bible you have:

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no mischief follows: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

And that's pretty obvious that the fetus died.

http://bible.cc/exodus/21-22.htm