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Originally Posted by davidmash
I take that to mean that there is no scripture that supporst the claim one way or the other?
If that is the case, the religious 'belief' whether scripture based or not still seems to be that it is at conception and that since it is 'life' aborting it would be a sin right? So isn't that they same as saying that "religion belives that abortion is a sin and life begins at conception"? I know it's a generalization but you get the gist of what I am getting at right?
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No Scripture that I'm familiar with. But it's not surprising since medically safe abortions are a fairly recent thing. Some religious people believe life begins at conception and abortion is a sin. But others disagree with both of them or agree with one and not the other. I think religion is getting pushed further and further to the political/cultural/social right in the US so the connection between being religious and being anti-abortion is becoming more and more common but I don't see any necessary connection between the two at all. I think the connection tends to be made because the transformation in family life and women's role made possible thru artificial means of birth control, has produced a conservative reaction which connects (correctly) these fundamental changes with reproductive freedom. It then turns to religion to try to gain some leverage in reversing those changes. Hence the connection between abortion and religion.