Posted on 04/22/2024 5:53:41 PM PDT by Morgana
(LifeSiteNews) – Far-left actress and The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg falsely claimed on Monday that the Ten Commandments held as sacred by Christians and Jews do not contain a prohibition on abortion, as part of a broader recitation of general pro-abortion arguments.
The comments came as part of a discussion of former President and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump coming out on Monday against additional pro-life laws at the national level, instead saying that further legislative action on abortion should be relegated to individual states.
“No one is obligated to have an abortion. You never have to have one, and I hope no one ever has to have one,” Goldberg said. “I want to make sure that if you decide this is what you need to do, I’m going to get behind you because I don’t know your life, and if you say this is what you need, that’s what I’m going to do.”
“It’s you, your doctor, and God. That’s who you have to be conversational to, and it’s not mentioned in the big ten, I’m just going to say,” she added.
Sunny Hostin suggested that pro-lifers would apply it to “thou shalt not kill,” which Goldberg dismissed on the grounds that “‘thou shall not kill’ cannot be used as the block because we allow wars all the time […] So there is some conversation to be had there, so either thou shall not kill for everybody, and everything, or we have to talk about all the things you and I have to do.”
Exodus 20:13 is often understood more specifically as “thou shalt not murder,” to reflect that the Bible does not preclude killing in self-defense or to save the life of another, while still identifying the intentional and unnecessary taking of human life as a grievous offense. God creating humans “in His own image” is widely understood to mean human life carries tremendous intrinsic value, and elsewhere the Bible warns that “hands that shed innocent blood” are “detestable” to God.
Further, long-settled biological criteria and mainstream medical textbooks establish that a living human being, structurally and genetically distinct from his or her mother, is created upon fertilization and is present throughout the entirety of pregnancy – regardless of whether that embryonic human is being artificially sustained outside of the womb.
This is not in serious dispute; in 2019, University of Chicago Department of Comparative Human Development graduate Steve Jacobs found that 96 percent of more than 5,500 biologists he surveyed agreed, despite overwhelmingly identifying as “liberal,” “pro-choice,” and Democrats, and a majority identifying as “non-religious.” Many abortionists and pro-abortion activists and philosophers admit as much, granting preborn babies’ humanity while either asserting that a mother’s “bodily autonomy” trumps her baby’s rights or making the loaded claim that some humans do not necessarily count as “persons.”
As detailed by the pro-life group Live Action, simply describing common abortion procedures contrasts sharply with the framing of the practice as a vague “personal choice” from defenders like Goldberg.
First-trimester aspiration abortions, for example, consist of sucking an already-recognizable child out of the womb with “approximately 10 to 20 times the force of a household vacuum cleaner,” then using sharp implements to scrape out whatever remains are left behind. In the second trimester, dilation and evacuation abortions entail using a sopher clamp, a “grasping instrument with rows of sharp ‘teeth,’” to literally rip a baby’s limbs off and crush his or her skull.
Fourteen states currently ban all or most abortions, with available data so far indicating that now-enforceable pro-life laws could effectively wipe out an estimated 200,000 abortions a year.
You all Whoopi needs a Sunday School lesson, care to teach her what "Thou shall not kill" means?
I’m pretty sure it’s covered under the 6th Commandment “Thou shall not murder,” Caryn.
Yeah, it also doesn’t have a commandment not to roast your parents alive on the barbecue spit and serve them to the neighbors. There’s some things even God couldn’t imagine these depraved maniacs would be doing today.
She’s an idiot.
But he did. The 6th.
Doesn’t mention slavery either….soooo
Which qualifies her to be a host on “The View.”
Whoopi is stupid and ignorant as well as confident.
The poorly translated Thou Shalt Not Kill
is actually
Thou Shalt Not Murder.
One source:
Ancient Greek: Οὐ φονεύσεις, romanized: Ou phoneúseis), You shall not murder
(NIV, Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תִּרְצָח, romanized: Lo tirṣaḥ)
or Do not murder (CSB),
is a moral imperative included as one of the Ten Commandments in the Torah.
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Thus Whoopi’s reference to soldiers in war is about “killing” an enemy combatant, not about “murder” of someone.
Remember, she’s a charter member of DENSA.
Perhaps a late term vivisection of the fool would open her eyes (remove them last)?
That one falls under coveting they neighbor’s spouse, property, etc. And prohibitions on stealing.
Slavery, unless a person willingly sells himself or herself, such as to pay off debt, is theft. Slavery in the US wasnd voluntary it was coercive, by force. Wanting a slave, is coveting another person’s life.
Brainless mop headed woman.
Neither are guns, Whoopsi
Let the guns flow freely and govt money buy them for me!
Correct
Its either properly translate thou shall not murder, or though shall not kill without just cause
I guess that would be included in the honoring your parents one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmZFGw5CeWE
Might’ve been one of the Commandments on the tablet Moses dropped
Oh, but people like you are, Caryn.
Murder is the killing of an “innocent.”
Therefore killing a baby by abortion is MURDER because a baby is about as INNOCENT as a human being can get.
Whoopi is just a STUPID IGNORANT B!TCH!!!
By a 220-210 margin, the House of Representatives passed the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, with only one Democrat voting in favor. So, with only one exception these Democrat legislators established a line for defense of abortion within their party that includes those born alive despite attempted abortion.
Now the commandment “Thou shalt not kill.” uses the word meaning not to commit first degree murder. It looks to me that Democrats are in favor of first degree murder.
I enjoy this statement by C.S. Lewis about killing.
"Does loving your enemy mean not punishing him? No, for loving myself does not mean that I ought not to subject myself to punishment - even to death. If one has committed a murder, the right Christian thing to do would be to give yourself up to the police and be hanged. It is therefore in my opinion, perfectly right for a Christian judge to sentence a man to death or a Christian soldier to kill an enemy, I always thought so, ever since I became a Christian, and long before the war, and still think so now that we are a peace. It is no good quoting, "Thou shalt not kill." There are two Greek words: the ordinary word to kill and the word to murder. And when Christ quotes that commandment He uses the murder one in all three accounts, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. And I am told there is the same distinction in Hebrew. All killing is not murder any more that all sexual intercourse is adultery. When soldiers came to St. John the Baptist asking what to do, he never remotely suggested that they ought to leave the army: nor did Christ when he met a Roman sergeant-major - what they called a centurion. The idea of the knight - the Christian in arms for defense of a good cause - is one of the great Christian ideas."
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