At the time of the Old Testament, people understood that doing things certain ways helped their group survive and weaving these rules into the structure of their culture made many things better. And at that time enforcing rules by "the fear of the wrath of God" was better than just beating everyone that disobeyed.
But cultural evolution and new knowledge can be a reason to discard certain belief structures.
For example, we can see that the kosher food rule about not eating pork prevented people from dying because of tendency for pigs to wallow in their own feces and that wound up in the end product. Now that we have cleaner processing and ways to detect the problem and medications to keep animals from developing illnesses that can be passed on, it's not the only way to prevent death or illness from eating foods in a certain way.
As a Christian, I honestly wish that abortion was looked upon as a necessary, but limited option. I don't want any woman to have to die in child birth, especially when the fetus is non viable. I don't want women to have to carry a pregnancy to term from rape or incest. Even in relationships there should still be some availability to choose something like the morning after pill without being made our to be a murderer. And that a woman should be allowed all forms of birth control prior to and during sex without judgement.
But to look at abortion as a simple method of birth control that should always be available to me is a way to avoid taking responsibility beforehand. Because at some point and we don't know exactly when that happens, the fetus does become a person. So finding the point where we can agree to limit this option as simple birth control and choice when that choice affects a life becoming viable to me isn't unreasonable.
I still believe in choice, but I do understand someone wanting to preserve the life of a potential child.
But the way the MAGA and Federalists are going about it is horrible and resulting in awful consequences.
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