I've been looking at fake pictures of the fetus on religious extremist sites and was wondering where I might find the above question in scripture?
And when does a pancake become a pancake? An egg and flour have the potential to become a pancake, but it's not really a pancake. When you add all the ingredients of flour, milk, and eggs, it's still not a pancake....it's only batter. It becomes a pancake when the cook decides it's cooked and ready.
To say a fetus is human, is the same as calling the batter a pancake.
Sperm has the potential of creating a human life. A hair has the potential of creating a human life, given potential cloning techniques.
(I'm just pointing out the silliness of this argument)
A potential baby becomes a baby when and if the mother decides it so....when the fetus can live on it's own, right around the neighborhood of 7 months of gestation.
What difference does it make what is or is not interpreted, "divined", out of these so called scriptures? The bibles are fiction. You might just ask the same questions from Superman Comics.
Obviously a moral just society needs a road map to decide what is or is not homicide. We have one. It is called "Laws".
The question of abortion has been decided and laws drawn up to regulate the procedure.
It does not matter what a bunch of MEN that believe in sky pixies have to say about it.