Sir, – Ciarán Mac Guill (December 12th) cites the Bible to assert that God considers preborn babies to be full humans.
The Bible establishes that the penalty for murder is death (Exodus 21:12); however, the penalty for hitting a woman and causing her to have a miscarriage is to pay a fine specified by the woman’s husband (Exodus 21:22). Thus, going by the word of the Bible, God does not in fact consider the preborn to be a human. – Yours, etc,