Is biblegod pro life?

'"If some men are fighting and hurt a pregnant woman so that she loses her child, but she is not injured in any other way, the one who hurt her is to be fined whatever amount the woman's husband demands, subject to the approval of the judges. But if the woman herself is injured, the punishment shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."' Ex 21:22-25 GNBThe concern here is not with murder, but with manslaughter, accidental death. A man who is fighting another, whose wife intervenes and receives a blow from him that kills a foetus, does not intend for the harmless foetus to die. There was economic loss in such cases (potentially, anyway- childbirth was hazardous before modern times), so reparation was necessary. However, if the man used sufficient force to kill the wife, the standard law of lex talionis applied, because it was reckonable as murder.

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a man committing manslaughter (accidental death) of the woman.

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That would not be accidental, it would be murder, not manslaughter, therefore lex talionis would apply.Now is this distinction too difficult for readers to comprehend? Or is it too difficult for skeptics to accept?

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But killing an unborn child under the same circumstances is not murder

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If abortion takes place by accident, the same circumstances apply. But pre-meditated abortion is completely different, and some people think it is murder, unless there are good medical grounds for termination.

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I'm sorry

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Is that the truth?

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the legal definition of manslaughter is

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manslaughter the slaying of a man: unlawful homicide without malice aforethought (law) Chambers Dict.

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According to the Bible, while God may allow and even need/want free will, he is not above punishing people for choosing something he doesn't like.

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According to the Bible, God punishes people for choosing something that people don't like. According to the Bible, God does not condemn people for what their own consciences do not condemn them for. Surely, he cannot do so.

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there are people out there with no compunction about murder

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The Bible describes such people as having seared, deadened consciences. But those consciences will, we may suppose, be revived.

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some sociopaths are born without a conscience

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They are?

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Well, perhaps genetically predisposed towards antisocial behavior is a better way of saying it

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A way of misrepresenting it.Again.

God's will is clear enough, according to the Bible, which states that nothing in this world, not even life itself, is worth a bad conscience, and if people in the past died to show that, it's a pretty good demonstration for people today, for whom God offers salvation from a bad conscience through Christ.