The Bible doesn't seem to tackle the topic of abortion directly. Roy Bowen Ward quotes two anti-abortion books in his essay on the personhood of the fetus: John T. Noonan (1970) said: "The Old Testament has nothing to say on abortion." ... The silence of the New Testament regarding abortion surpasses even that of the Old Testament." ... He argues that during Old Testament times, "Living creatures are in this way exactly defined in Hebrew as creatures that breathe." ...

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