Way of Life:Innocent Blood

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The following by Millard Posthuma, M.D. (1916-2009) is tract #345 published by The Tract League:
It has often been said that until it can be determined when the soul joins the body of a new baby, abortion cannot be called murder.
This, however, is not the main concern of the Bible. The key phrase of Scripture is found in Genesis 9:4 where we read “the life thereof, which is the blood thereof...” That phrase is the basis for many other passages that equate blood with life and that call the shedding of blood sin.
What relation does this verse have to the problem of abortion? Just this: that every fetus has its own blood, and the shedding of that blood is as surely the taking of life as it would be any other circumstance.
Before the fetus is three weeks old, it has a beating heart. Also, its primitive vessels and blood are in the process of developing continuously throughout the .. Read More

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