[SaveTheChief]

Actually, the Bible doesn't say anything at all about abortion.

The Bible does not address abortion by name, but the Old Testament says something about murder, if I remember correctly. Abortion is murder.

[Destro]

The Old Testament says that if you cause a miscarriage by accident you have to pay a fine. That is as specific as the OT gets on the subject. Children and women were considered property and not full human beings in the ancient Hebrew system where only adult males were full human beings before the law.

It was the pagan Greeks (and who we should thank) that considered abortion immoral and their doctors had to swear (oaths are a Greek pagan religious invention - the Jews did not swear oaths) to the Hippocratic Oath vowing not to euthanize or carry out an abortion.

Nor did the Bible ban slavery. The pagan Greeks were the first to consider slavery wrong and ban it - but only for fellow Greeks.