Abortion was practiced in the ancient Near East at the time of Moses. Waltke considers a number of Old Testament texts to test them for their view on the life of the unborn child and the nature of the fetus: Genesis 2:7, Job 42:7, and Psalm 51:5.

Source: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 1976. 11 pages.

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