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Jerry Nadler: “If one is quoting from Moses, one might note that in the same five books of Moses that contain the Ten Commandments…”

On the recordFebruary 27, 2003
If one is quoting from Moses, one might note that in the same five books of Moses that contain the Ten Commandments there is a passage that says if a man smites a woman and she die, he shall surely die, and if he smites her and her fetus dies, she shall pay monetary compensation, showing at least the Biblical view that a fetus at some stage of development is not a person and not subject to being murdered. The heart of this debate is whether you are creating a human being when you are creating an embryo.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the Biblical perspective on the status of a fetus during a debate on abortion.

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