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> I mean, he’s not a rabbi or anything. “On the authority of Rabbi Ishmael, it was said: [A murderer is executed] even for the murder of an embryo. What is Rab
by dane-pgp 4y ago
> I mean, he’s not a rabbi or anything.
“On the authority of Rabbi Ishmael, it was said: [A murderer is executed] even for the murder of an embryo. What is Rabbi Ishmael’s reason? Because it is written, ‘Whosoever sheddeth the blood of man within a man, his blood shall be shed.’ What is a man within a man? An embryo in his mother’s womb,” (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 57b).
> is 68 historic?
I wasn't aware of Waltke's position, which is cited by that CNN article, but I don't think it represents the consensus of Christian scholars at the time, and in any case, he later (in 1976) reversed his position, concluding: "The fetus is human and therefore to be accorded the same protection to life granted every other human being."