Abortion
Abortion And Bible I am for abortion in most cases. ... Let me touch on the religious aspect of abortion since the original author has elected to mention it. ... The Bible doesnt seem to tackle the topic of abortion directly. Roy Bowen Ward quotes two anti-abortion books in his essay on the personhood of the fetus: John T. Noonan (1970) said: "The Old Testament has nothing to say on abortion." John Connery (1977) said: "If anyone expects to find an explicit condemnation of abortion in the New Testament, he will be disappointed. The silence of the New Testament regarding abortion surpasses even that of the Old Testament." Ward found this silence difficult to understand, because abortion was widely practiced during New Testament era in the Middle East. ... Following this reasoning, a newborn becomes human after it starts breathing; a fetus is only potentially human; an abortion would not terminate a human life.