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It sounds like Robin was a beautiful person. I sure her corner of the world is better for her having passed through, even for such a short time. Love to you, and your family.

Ohio has passed a law that allows sex offenders to be identified and tracked, even if they've never been charged with a crime. http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...8290360/-1/NEWS Alleged victims can start the proceedings. Child abuse is horrible, and sex offenders should receive the harshest punishment, but man! The possibity for misuse of this law scares me. Someone offends someone, and bam! The false accusations go flying.

Ah Drty, once again you are too smart for words. At least my words. I do think you need your brainy avatar up again. Smart men are so hot. I don't remember posting a smiley face. Do you think I have an alter ego, or do I sleepwalk?

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Drty Dzn, I agree with what you say. I don't think it was the big controversy it is today. I think they (people in Biblical times) were more concerned with coveting their neighbor's ox. Or wearing clothes with mixed fibers. Hey, what happened to your brainy avatar?

Now, I am no Hebrew scholar, but isn't the word depart "yatsa" as opposed to "shakol"(Hosea 9:14)? So, couldn't her fruit depart, and still be alive?

Johniam: I know VP taught mischief was the death of the woman, but I could never make that teaching "my own" as he use to say. Why couldn't the mischief mean the child? A woman's fruit (baby) could depart and live, thus the no mischief. And if the child died, mischief ensued. And as far as the husband laying upon him, my uneducated guess was always what the husband wanted the other to pay in monetary damages. But I never thought about the husband being able to beat him up! Pond: Yeah, I was always taught that the men ruled the roost in Moses' time. So, if I was taught correctly, maybe the key to what God says about abortion is directed in how a man rules his house?

What I don't understand is what is meant by "mischief" in Exodus 21:22 and 23. No mischief means payment, but mischief means life for life. What is mischief? Does it mean death? And who's death? The mother? The child? But really, these verses are talking about men striving, and a woman getting hurt. Can anyone use these verses to say if a woman who chooses to end her pregnancy is right or wrong?