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a woman with a fetus was killed, death was to be the penalty. However, if the woman was only injured and the fetus caused to abort then the local magistrates imposed a monetary penalty. This underscores the Jewish biblical perspective that the woman's life was seen as superior to that of her child. During the Talmudic period, abortion was not to be regarded as a transgression unless the fetus was consider

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