Adoption or death ?
The story is recounted in 1 Kings 3:16-28 . Two young women who lived in the same house and who both had an infant son came to Solomon for a judgment. One of the women claimed that the other, after accidentally smothering her own son while sleeping, had exchanged the two children to make it appear that the living child was hers. The other woman denied this and so both women claimed to be the mother of the living son and said that the dead boy belonged to the other.
After some deliberation, King Solomon called for a sword to be brought before him. He declared that there was only one fair solution: the live son must be split in two, each woman receiving half of the child. Upon hearing this terrible verdict, the boy's true mother cried out, "Oh Lord, give the baby to her, just don't kill him!" The liar, in her bitter jealousy, exclaimed, "It shall be neither mine nor yours—divide it!"
Which of these women to you admire and respect the most ?
The greatest" compassion" we hope to see is from "the would be mother" of a child... her natural love would allow another
women to raise her child rather than kill her baby .
Also surely the laws can be "refined"so if the life of the mother is at risk this would be given first priority..
I agree that it isn't always black and white. However, you are also focusing on the exceptions rather than addressing the morality of abortion in the vast majority of cases where it simply is an unwanted baby. ~~~Mrhhome
Is there a need to open the flood gates to every abortion ?
Clearly there is difference between life for life vs life for death
If a choice must be made ( in such a case ), yes the mother's life would be valued more (as sad and unfair as it seems for the unborn child)