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Is biblegod pro life?

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cavediver
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10-05-2009 12:08 PM 		Reply to: Message 4 by ochaye
10-05-2009 9:36 AM

The concern here is not with murder, but with manslaughter, accidental death. A man who is fighting another, whose wife intervenes and receives a blow from him that kills a foetus, does not intend for the harmless foetus to die. There was economic loss in such cases (potentially, anyway- childbirth was hazardous before modern times), so reparation was necessary. However, if the man used sufficient force to kill the wife, the standard law of lex talionis applied, because it was reckonable as murder.
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Hmmm, not sure if I can see your "whose wife intervenes" in the text... and you seem to be claiming that the text only applies if the man deliberately attacks the woman, as opposed to her simply being caught in the melee (caught on the backswing, wayward sligshot, etc)
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Can you justify these points?
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cavediver
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10-05-2009 12:09 PM 		Reply to: Message 6 by ochaye
10-05-2009 11:58 AM

Re: The point is...
That would not be accidental, it would be murder, not manslaughter, therefore lex talionis would apply.
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So catching the woman and killing her on the backsweep of my sword would be murder?
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