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In Exodus 21:22-23, the New King James Version reads, "If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows [meaning, no injury came to the fetus], he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine." The perpetrator had only to pay damages for whatever inconvenience or hardship might have come on the parents. "But," it continues, "if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life." In other words, if his actions caused the unborn child to die, he was sentenced to death!"
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Of course we don't enact eye-for-eye justice anymore because of the NEW COVENANT but the verse STILL speaks truth about how valuable God considers the baby in the womb.
