Personhood in the Bible
When do you achieve personhood? Many Christians (but certainly not all) say a fertilised human egg is a person, and use this to argue against abortion. Putting this in perspective, up to 75% of fertilised eggs - or "people" as these Christians call them - never make it to term; many never even get embedded in the womb. I am not talking about abortion, but nature taking its course. That means that for the 130 million people born each year, there are nearly 400 million "people" who die before they are even born . And if Christianity is right, this is a system God has engineered. God is causing 75 "people" to die before they were even born every minute ! Of course, Christians argue God slaughtering million, billions even is perfectly moral - they have to to excuse the genocides like the Flood. I disagree. What the Bible actually say Let us see what the Biblical situation really is. Exodus 21:22 “When men strive together and hit a pregnant ...