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The Bible and Abortion: Exodus 21:22-23 in the Septuagint and Other Opinions
Carvalho, Adriano da Silva.
International Journal of Philosophy, vol. 11, núm. 1, 2023, pp. 1-5.
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Resumen
This research aims to contribute to the discussion on the subject of Abortion by analyzing the concepts of formed
and unformed in the Septuagint in Exodus 21:22-23, and the opinions of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas on the social
status of the fetus. The Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, which was translated in stages into Greek between the 3rd century
BC and the 1st century BC, presents a different point of view than that found in the Hebrew text of Exodus 21:22-23. It
introduces the notions of formed and unformed fetus. In other words, he understood the fetus (embryo) in a perspective of
developing reality. Augustine and Aquinas, two important names in Christian theology, seem to have reflected a tradition that
granted protection to the unborn child according to the stages of its development. The discussion around the topic of abortion is
complex, very sensitive, but it should not be avoided. Bibliographical research was used as methodology. As a result, it will be
pointed out that the biblical presentation of human beings does not begin with an explanation of conception or the fetal period.
It does not discuss the point at which the embryo attains the full moral status of a human person. Thus, for this research, the
discussion about abortion must necessarily take into account issues such as risk to the pregnant woman's life; fetal
malformation etc. But, above all, it must be centered on the personality of the pregnant woman.
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