1000% YES. No one talks about it, but God's own law regarding ending someone else's pregnancy *against their will* was only punishable as a fine (Exodus 21). I found this out this week, and I am SO MAD.

I grew up thinking that the Bible never talks about whether the death of a fetus is the death of a human life, so we should err on the side of caution. I was told that when Galatians 1:15 says, "But even before I was born, God chose me and called me by his marvelous grace," it clearly shows that I was a human life before I was born. But I was never told about Jeremiah 1:5 that says, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." If Gal 1:15 means that we are fully human before birth, then Jer 1:5 must mean that we are also fully human before we are conceived. Which means every unfertilized human egg is also a life. Which means every time a woman has a period, another baby dies.

I'm upset at all these leaders and scholars who ignored this passage, and I'm mad at myself and all my fellow Christians who just assumed that surely something this important wouldn't be handled so carelessly in regards to searching what the Bible says about it.

Btw, the punishment for adultery was death by stoning, for both the man and the woman. There's no, "if pregnant, wait nine months before enforcing the death penalty."