Why Did the Mosaic Law Not Deal With Abortion – Meredith Kline.
As we observed at the outset, induced abortion was so abhorrent to the Israelite mind that it was not necessary to have a specific prohibition dealing with it in Mosaic law. The Middle Assyrian laws attest to an abhorrence that was felt for this crime even in the midst of the heathendom around Israel, lacking though it did the illumination of special revelation. For in those laws a woman guilty of abortion was condemned to be impaled on stakes. Even if she managed to lose her own life in producing the abortion, she was still to be impaled and hung up in shame as an expression of the community’s repudiation of such an abomination. It is hard to imagine a more cursing commentary on what is taking place in enlightened America today than that provided by this legal witness out of the conscience of benighted ancient paganism!
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Meredith G. Kline, “Lex and Talionis and the Human Fetus,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 20 (1977): 193-201.
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