Life in the Womb

著者：ルーク・ロラード • カテゴリー：記事 • 公開日：2026年10月13日

In 1973, Roe v. Wade was decided under a Supreme Court with a majority of Republican-appointed justices. In 2022, it was overturned after nearly 50 years; in which Republican-appointed justices were the majority of the Supreme Court every year. Today, states are deciding if abortion should be legal or illegal through constitutional amendments voted on by their citizens.

The Unborn Child is a Human Life with a Soul

He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death… And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed… 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. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life…
- Exodus 21.12, 18-19, 22-23

If a man harms another man, or kills another's livestock (Exodus 21.33-36), the penalty is compensatory, and usually monetary. If a human is killed, the disciplinary action is the death penalty (Genesis 9.6; Leviticus 24.17, 21; Numbers 35.30-31). An example is then given of men fighting, in which the wife of one is unintentionally injured and goes into labor prematurely. If either the mother or the child are killed, the punishment is the death penalty.

Some interpret this as the death penalty solely regarding the woman and not the child. We know this is talking about the mother and the baby, because in the first scenario, the woman has a premature delivery and the child is okay: no death penalty there.

"Mischief" can mean many things, but in this passage we know it's about the death of a human being because the passage says the penalty for "any mischief" is "life for life." The passage also says that the child departs from her, not from the world.

Eminent Talmudic scholars such as Rashi (Jarchi), Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Aben Ezra), and Maimonides all believed this passage was only about the woman.1 Mostly, if not always, the opposite of a rabbi's interpretations is the truth.

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me… Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit… Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Job 10.8, 11-12, 18-19

Here Job laments his lot and wishes he was never born, describing his state in the womb as having a ghost. Ghost here is an old fashioned word for soul.2 The Bible makes it very clear than a baby in the womb has a soul: truly another indication of human life.

Ceremony of Bitter Water

Some, who perhaps are ignorant of the importance the Bible places on human life, state that the Bible is pro-abortion. This is a disgusting perversion of the scriptures. The text they use to argue this is Numbers 5.11-31. I won't go over this in detail, but would like to quickly review the erroneous interpretation. In brief, they believe the woman in Numbers 5 is pregnant from an affair.

The King James refers to the guilty woman's condition after drinking this water as causing her "belly to swell" and her "thigh to rot" (a euphemism that her uterus would prolapse, and her reproductive organs decay). We know this is about a woman who isn't pregnant, because it states that if she's innocent, then she'll conceive: "if the woman be not defiled… then she… shall conceive seed." Historical commentators have recorded a more detailed description of what may have happened to the guilty woman, which also shows that this passage is not speaking of a pregnant woman.3

Some perverted translations of the Bible use miscarriage!4 Inferring that the woman was pregnant and her baby would die. These create a contradiction in the Bible that justifies using these corrupt books as fuel for fire during the winter to keep warm.

The guilty woman in Numbers 5 is about an adulterous woman who was not pregnant, and would die barren.

Development in the First Trimester

The medical world considers conception (which they refer to as fertilization) to be week three of the first trimester (thirteen weeks). The time frame below begins at conception. So what they typically refer to as week 13, is listed as 10 below.

The average abortion is done during weeks 3-4 on this timeline.

0. Conception (fertilization); unique DNA is produced at this moment.
1. Implantation: cell layers for organs begin to form.
2. Foundations of the brain, spinal cord, heart, lungs, stomach, and liver start to develop.
3. Blood production begins; heart starts beating.
4. Brain grows rapidly: 100,000 new neurons form per minute.
5. All major organs exist; the baby looks distinctly human.
10. The baby can yawn, hiccup, and suck his thumb.

Over 90% of abortions in America occur within the first trimester.

Words of the World

These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:… hands that shed innocent blood…
- Proverbs 6.16-19

"It's part of her body."—Unique DNA is formed at fertilization.
"It can't survive on its own."—Neither can our 18-month-old son.
"It's not a human."—He sure has human DNA at fertilization.
"It'll grow up poor."—We don't go around killing people because they're poor.

Others Verses to Consider

The Bible often refers to a pregnant woman as "with child," not "with a fetus" (Isaiah 26.17; Luke 2.5; Revelation 12.2).

Job 31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

Ecclesiastes 11:5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

Isaiah 44:2 Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.

Isaiah 44:24 Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;

Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

Luke 1:41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:

Luke 1:44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.

  1. From John Gill's commentary on Exodus 21.23:

    if death to the woman, so Jarchi and Aben Ezra interpret it; to which agrees the Targum of Jonathan, "but if there is death in her, then ye shall judge or condemn the life of the murderer for the life of the woman;" about which, Jarchi says, there is a difference among their doctors; some say life properly, absolutely the person himself; others say money, but not life properly; for he that intends to kill one and kills another is acquitted from death, but must pay to the heirs the price (of the person killed) as that person might be sold for in the market: and indeed it seems hard that a person that kills another at unawares should die for it; it is more reasonable that the punishment should in such a case be commuted for something less than life; and that though no satisfaction was to be taken for a wilful murderer, Nu 35:31, yet it seems to imply that it might be taken for one that was so without design; as by another law cities of refuge are appointed for the manslayer at unawares: the canons of the Jews, according to Maimonides (Chobel Umazzik, c. 4. sect. 5. 6.), run thus; "he that strikes a woman, and she miscarries and dies, although it is done ignorantly; lo, such an one is free from payment, and he does not pay anything, as it is said, 'if there is no mischief, &c.' the Scripture does not distinguish between what is done ignorantly and presumptuously, in a thing in which there is not death by the sanhedrim, to free him from payment; in what things? when he intends the woman; but if he intends his neighbour and strikes the woman, though she dies, since her death is, without intention, lo, this is a thing in which there is not death by the sanhedrim, and he pays the price of the birth:"

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  2. ghost, n. 1. The soul or spirit, as the principle of life… (Oxford English Dictionary) ↩

  3. John Gill:

    her face turned pale immediately, her eyes bolted out, and she was filled with veins, her body swelled, and they called out, Cast her out, cast her out, that she may not defile the court. And the text seems to intimate, as if the operation was immediate

    Matthew Henry:

    Bishop Patrick says, from some of the Jewish writers, that the effect of these waters appeared immediately, she grew pale, and her eyes ready to start out of her head. Dr. Lightfoot says that sometimes it appeared not for two or three years, but she bore no children, was sickly, languished, and rotted at last; it is probable that some indications appeared immediately. The rabbin say that the adulterer also died in the same day and hour that the adulteress did, and in the same manner too, that he belly swelled, and his secret parts rotted: a disease perhaps not much unlike that which in these latter ages the avenging hand of a righteous God has made the scourge of uncleanness, and with which whores and whoremongers infect, and plague, and ruin one another, since they escape punishment from men.

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  4. At least the CEB, ERV, NIV, VOICE use this, or very similar language.
    "when the Lord induces a miscarriage and your womb discharges."
    "if you are pregnant now, your baby will die."
    "he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell."
    "you will have a miscarriage and your belly will swell." ↩