Ostrich@jedbrown @georgetakei That's not what the scripture says. If she miscarries, it's a fine. If she dies, it's murder.
Jed Brown@ostrich @georgetakei So that others can evaluate. https://www.esv.org/verses/Exodus%2020%3A22–23/ The most likely understanding is that it's referring to harm done to the child. Or it is both. Any other reading is reading into the text what you want to be there. Read the Bible the way you'd want your own email read.
@jedbrown @georgetakei wrong chapter
@jedbrown @georgetakei Now read the NIV with the footnotes, highlighting that "gives birth prematurely" means "have a miscarriage".
This is also part of the Torah, so you can review the body of Rabbinical scholarship that comes to the same interpretation I'm giving you.
@ostrich @georgetakei The most likely rendering is in the main text. Again, if you have to go the rabbi's, you're looking for confirmation of your own preconceived notion that you want to be there.
@jedbrown @georgetakei The main text is in Mosaic Hebrew. Since you aren't over 2000 years old, maybe you should rely on the interpretations of people who have dedicated their lives to translating and interpreting these texts.
Instead, you base your extreme prohibition on women's healthcare on... what? What explicit scriptural basis justifies murdering doctors and women? or Terrorizing innocents?