I’ve pointed out before that the Bible nor the God it portrays is “pro-life,” but the BEattitude has compiled some more verses about the Bible’s stance on killing babies in the womb:
God will punish women by aborting their fetus through a miscarriage.
“Give them, O LORD–what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.” (Hosea 9:14)
God teaches the use of a bizarre ritual using cursed “bitter water” to abort a fetus who was conceived through infidelity. (Numbers 5:11-21)
God orders Moses to kill every Midianite woman who was no longer a virgin. (many of these women would obviously have been pregnant) (Numbers 31:15-18)
God promises to destroy the infants of Samaria and rip open the stomachs of pregnant women.
The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open. (Hosea 13:16)
God allows the pregnant women of Tappuah to be ripped open.
At that time Menahem, starting out from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in the city and its vicinity, because they refused to open their gates. He sacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women. (2 Kings 15:16)
God commands the killing of infants and nursing babies.
Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. (1 Samuel 15:3)
God repays your enemies by destroying their babies.
Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us. He who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. (Psalms 137:8-9)
The BEattitude makes a good point:
Apparently all life is precious to the god of the Bible, unless it is a fetus conceived out of wedlock or conception happens within an “enemy” nation that does not worship him. The Bible teaches that abortion is acceptable if God performs it or he commands it to be done through contaminated water or by violent force….
You can be a pro-life supporter, but leave your Bible at home. It’s horrific and violent stories against innocent infants and unborn children have no place in a discussion on morality and the value of human life.
Indeed. The “always pro-life” position does not come from the Bible, but from conscience. If a person really get their morals from the Bible, be afraid — you never know what God might tell them to do next, because God commanded just about every evil imaginable in the Bible.
See, the problem with half of what was in this post was that they were killing babies who had been born already. It’s only the babies not yet born that they care about. Once those babies are out of the womb, they could care less about the fate of the child.
Reference/s:
Pedophile priests.
No social healthcare.
Starving kids in Africa they’d rather feed a Bible than food.
Children have the chance to be gay once outside the womb.
Lol, it was always funny to me that Christians somehow think the New Testament corrects all of the horrors of the old Testament, while they sit in church and shout affirmations after hearing the stories containing the very verses you’ve just posted.
And such bright lights of the Christian tradition as the venerated St. Augustine himself see the deaths of infants as just one of God’s teaching tools and not at all proof a wicked or indifferent God:
“Since God achieves some good by correcting adults through the suffering and death of children who are dear to them, why shouldn’t those take place? Once the suffering is past, it will be for the children as if they have never suffered. And as for the adults for whose sake they suffered, either they will be better, having learned from temporal adversities to choose an upright life, or they will have no excuse to avert their punishment in the world to come, since they refused to let the anguish of this life turn their desire toward eternal life.” (On Free Choice of the Will, pg. 116-117)
“If a person really get their morals from the Bible, be afraid “…be *very* afraid.
I am!
Very seriously afraid.
(Numbers 31:15-18)
Kill all the boys, kill all the non-virgin females and keep the virgins for yourselves. I suppose it’s possible to conceive of something more heinous than this but trying saps the spirit.
Oh, and once you’ve slaughtered all the relatives and enslaved these girls, when you rape their bodies as you have their spirits be sure not to abort any fetus because it would be a sin to destroy valuable property.
To be quite honest, I think it’s a pointless comparison, simply because their arguments for “all life is sacred” are also tied to the concept of promiscuity, sex out of wedlock, and sex for non-procreative reasons.
They’ll argue that those people were wicked unbelievers and that it was done for a reason and that God was merciful in sending these people to a better existence. They’ll argue that regardless people don’t have a right to play God (only God can kill, dontcha know) and that’s God’s will that a woman get pregnant.
Methinks in this particular discussion, quoting the atrocities in the Bible is counter-productive and useless.
“They’ll argue that those people were wicked unbelievers and that it was done for a reason and that God was merciful in sending these people to a better existence.”
Hell is a better existence? Unbelievers don’t go to hell?
Yay!
No, their excuse is that the “poor widdle babies” will go to heaven, whereas the wicked sinners can buuuuuurn.
Doesn’t make sense to me either, but I *had* this explanation given to me once.
Yeah but use that – God doesn’t like babies born from a whole host of people (any except his chosen people’s babies only born through a lawful marriage). So perhaps God is sanctioning most all abortions and that is why it he keeps it legal in the US and many other countries. Most of these foeteses are foeteses he would be getting rid of in another manner anyway. It’s not like the BibleGod did all the killing himself. He sometimes had other humans do it for him. So this is just one of his many foetus killing tools. It’s ALL in God’s hands after all.
I don’t know if it’s better to use that argument. It is like lying to the kids: if you are bad santa won’t give you christmas’s gifts. Come on! Grow up! Your god shouldn’t be related to human laws in any way, if you want to argue about morality it’s ok, but a magical being doesn’t fit in
He (god) would tell them to kidnap a child, lock her up in the back yard, and impregnate her.
I find that what that sick prick did would be very in-line with something the Bible would say.
This guy said that he spoke to god throught a box.
He must have kept his bible in a box.
Lucky that he was a believer, otherwise he would have no moral.
Thanks for the pingback, Daniel.
I occasionally listen to an AM Catholic radio station on my drive home for blog ideas and admittedly for a good laugh. But inevitably I always have to listen to rants about the evils of abortion. Christians claim abortion is evil because we are made “in God’s image”. Yes, abortion is evil because God looks like a hairy man and sits up on a gold throne in heaven.
As I said in the post, don’t pretend you get your morality and pro-life stance from a sadistic book full of wrathful baby slaughtering.
Yes, abortion is evil because God looks like a hairy man and sits up on a gold throne in heaven.
Not for nothing, but I’m pretty sure that’s not what they mean.
It means different things to every Christian. But essentially, all life on earth is disposable except for humans because God made us similar to himself. Humans and chimpanzees share about 98 percent of the same genes. But chimpanzees are disposable mammals merely for human entertainment.
Christianity is an egocentric religion that worships an egotistical god. I can tell you from personal experience that faith does crazy things to the human brain causing it to ignore the obvious.
Good points, Daniel and theBEattitude. They’ve always been there, and as you said, you’ve said them before, but those bible verses put together say it well.
All the christian confirmation bias, selective blindness, hypocrisy, etc. that christians have to do to maintain the notion that the bible is moral and God is specifically against abortion have to be unbelievably egregious, or egregiously unbelievable, or… or… something godawful horrible.
It is nice you read the Bible. Your bias causes you to miss some obvious facts though. For example:
Most of those passages above are not God speaking. Some are the laments of a person who has seen their homeland destroyed and wishes vengeance on their enemies. God is just reporting the cries of sorrow of His people. He is not condoning or condemning the way they feel – just letting us share the pathos of loss and pain – which often brings comfort to others who are suffering.
One reports that a man tore open the pregnant women and two verses later it clearly says this guy offended God and did evil all his life. Again, God told what he did. It doesn’t mean God approved of his actions, as you make it appear. It clearly says God did not approve.
Some are simply reports of what is going to happen. God is just telling what is going to happen – which does not mean he condones it, just reporting by way of warning. For example, if I could know the future, like God knows, I could warn you: “Tomorrow you are going to have a car accident because you will be talking on your cell phone.” I am not saying, I hope that happens nor am I causing it by saying that. It is simply a warning from someone who knows the future. A wise person would not talk on their cell phone tomorrow while driving.
God also says, “Hey, if you keep doing this, this is what is going to happen.” Since he does know the future, it is actually in kindness that he warns people where their path will lead them. It does not mean he takes pleasure in the horrific things that happen to them if they continue the direction they are going. Nor does he cause it. If he could see the bad that this action will produce but did NOT tell them, that would be cruel.
As for the death in war. It is ludicrous to compare what takes place on a field of battle to what takes place in a sterile hospital environment under the “care” of medical personnel. To compare abortion to war is just silly. Many innocents die in battle and it is a terrible thing but then to say, because children are killed in battle -even if at the orders of the commanding officer – makes it ok to medically abort children. Apply that same logic to the aged. Because some old folks are killed in battle it is OK to terminate their life in a hospital setting. If that is OK – next logical step, many young men are killed in battle at the order of the military leaders. Therefore, it is OK to slaughter them in hospitals, too. Come on man, comparing war and abortion is ludicrous.
Keep fighting. It is better to be cold and mad at God than half heartedly committed to Him. So I hand it to you. Keep up the fury and there is a better chance of you slamming head first into Him than for the guy who is wimpy in his convictions about everything.
Rick, I think you’re missing some obvious points.
> “Most of those passages above are not God speaking. Some are the laments of a person who has seen their homeland destroyed and wishes vengeance on their enemies.”
I see two of the verses candidating for this: Hosea 9:14 and Hosea 13:16. These are indeed words of an angry man. They are also the words of Hosea, one of God’s prophets, who is speaking on behalf of God. In scriptural tradition concerning the prophets of OT this is to be understood quite literally – Hosea is not imploring God to cause miscarriages or crush his enemies, including pregnant women and infants. No, he is presenting the will and intentions of God.
Hosea often switches perspectives between himself and God. 9:14 is the prophet himself speaking, while 13:16 is God speaking directly (through his prophet). But it doesn’t really matter – like I said, Hosea is not asking God to do something, he is recounting what God will do. Causing miscarriages seems almost like a minor thing compared to some of the other horrific things God promises to do. Anyway, it would seem strange if 13:16, which are words directly attributed to God (God personally telling that he’ll rip pregnant women open), should somehow not be in accordance with 9:16 (Hosea saying “O Lord … Give them a miscarrying womb”).
Again, these are not “simply reports of what is going to happen”, as should be clear from their context.
A third potential candidate for verses that are just men who “wishes vengeance on their enemies” is Psalms 137:8-9. As you no doubt know, Psalms is considered to be a very inspirational part of the Bible. It would seem strange to include such prose, “Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us. He who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.”, as words of inspiration. However, Psalms is admittedly a very fragmented compilation, pieced together from all kinds of sources which had all kinds of different motivations. It may be that 137:8-9 was intended to recount an angry lamentation, or it might be that it was intended to demonstrate the might of God and his image as a warrior god. But whatever Psalms 137:8-9 is saying, Hosea has already demonstrated that God has no compunctions about killing the enemy’s infants and unborn.
This is also evident in the other verses where God directly commands such killings, ie. Numbers 31:15-18 and 1 Samuel 15:3. I’ve excluded 2 King 15:16, as I don’t see God actually commanding the atrocities in that case.
When you say “God is just telling what is going to happen – which does not mean he condones it…” and “It does not mean he takes pleasure in the horrific things that happen to them if they continue the direction they are going. Nor does he cause it.”, you are simply wrong. God may not take pleasure in these atrocities, but he doesn’t just tell what is going to happen – he commands it to happen. There’s no way around this fact. And it is disingenuous to consider the pregnant, the unborn, and the infants as just “collateral damage” – innocent victims caught in the middle of war – because God specifically singles them out for destruction in his commands. Most of the time in his numerous dictates about killing and eradicating the enemy he never mentions them, but in the verses quoted above he does. God quite clearly intends them to be destroyed in those verses.
Furthermore, there is Numbers 5:11-21, which are God’s direct instructions for dealing with women who are suspected of infidelity. The procedure is supposed to make a woman who has become pregnant by infidelity to miscarry and become barren.
Finally, you mention comparing abortion and warfare. You should read the post again. It doesn’t talk about abortion (except indirectly by mentioning Numbers 5), it talks about God being for killing children. Which he clearly is whenever it suits him, according to OT.
PS: You’re displaying a common misconception among theists. We atheists are not angry with God. We don’t rage against him. We merely like to point out when his followers demonstrate inconsistency, ignorance, or hypocrisy. This is one such case.
This +1. Kinda silly to be angry with someone who doesn’t exist, no?
“For example, if I could know the future, like God knows”
God knows future? So… what about free will?
If he knows that I’m going to hell, then my free will -chosing Jesus?- it’s not important. If he knows that I’m going to hell but I’m saved through Jesus, then he fails to know the future…
You are confusing between foreknowledge and pre-destination. Foreknowledge is that God knows from the beginning till the end. He knew that Men and Women will sin even before He created him, but that didnt stop God from creating Man and Woman. Instead God gave a remedy to their sins – Jesus’ death on the cross.
Predestination is what Hindus believe in … that their everyday lives happen according to what has already been written.
God knows whether you will saved or not and He will keep calling you towards Him. But that doesnt mean that He is forcing that foreknowledge on you or in other words he is making you do it. He just knows it….. but yet He will wait for you to turn around and see Him.
“You are confusing between foreknowledge and pre-destination. ”
You’re the confused one here. For an omnipotent being they are the same thing.
“God knows whether you will saved or not and He will keep calling you towards Him…..He will wait for you to turn around and see Him.”
Why, is he hoping for a surprise? He’s already seen the movie of your life 100 Billion times in his head already and yet he keeps watching hoping that this time the Titanic doesn’t sink? This god thing you believe in is strangely pathetic.
The bible is thick brown shit!
How many of these scripture versus were read in context of the surrounding stories?
Have you read the surrounding stories? All of the verses in the original post are accurately represented here. Just because some parts of the bible aren’t talked about in church doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
the Prophet Mohammed Peace and Mercy and Blessing of Allah be upon Him used to give these commands to His solders and Generals and also His Kalifs did after Him:
1. Do not kill any woman or Child or Old man.
2. Do not Destroy any Temple , Nor burn any House .
3. Do not cut any Tree .
4. Do not kill or attack any one who dont fight you and do not kill or attack on any priest/or any religious person.
5. Do not follow[for sake of killing] any one who run in the battle and give security for home surrender to you!
6. Do not kill any one sake refuge in their house .
7. Do not Kill the injured solders of the enemy !
So What?
What are rules on suicide bombings?
Inb4 No True Iranian….
The Suicide Bombings never were in past times, its invented just in the 20 century .
and the 1st people who performed it were Koreans ,
and after them the Pak Army also did in 1965 Indo-Pak war.
and then after that the Palestinian Freedom fighters start to do as well as the Iraqi & Afghan freedom fighters.
so now there is two opinions about that:
1st some scholars forbid it because they think its similar with ending the life, that’s why its not allowed.
2nd opinion is , if Muslims don’t have well technology and weapons and they are in positions that they cant fight the enemy and in same time protect them selves then in this cause its allowed to do suicide bombings (as the last option) and its also just on the solders of the enemy .. and the same principles which we got from the prophet Mohammed (which I mentioned above) will be applied here as well.
So, your argument so far is: Islam isn’t as bad as Christianity. Except for the modern-day suicide bombings. And the death sentence for de-converting. And the atrocious treatment of women. And little girls who get acid thrown in their faces or their arms cut off for going to school. And the angry, ignorant mobs. And the theocratic bat-shit insanity.
You’re alright thanks, I think I’ll stick with atheism.
@ Custador
ofcourse Islam is not bad as Christianity or any other religion ..
and if you were in same position of those who commit suicide bombings then you would be the 1st suicide bomber !
and no one is asking you to be Muslim, we informed you, and transferred what the prophet of God told us, now its your choice to do what you want
{ Allah – there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of [all] existence. Neither drowsiness overtakes Him nor sleep. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. Who is it that can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what is [presently] before them and what will be after them, and they encompass not a thing of His knowledge except for what He wills. His Kursi extends over the heavens and the earth, and their preservation tires Him not. And He is the Most High, the Most Great. There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion. The right course has become clear from the wrong. So whoever disbelieves in Taghut and believes in Allah has grasped the most trustworthy handhold with no break in it. And Allah is Hearing and Knowing. Allah is the ally of those who believe. He brings them out from darknesses into the light. And those who disbelieve – their allies are Taghut. They take them out of the light into darknesses. Those are the companions of the Fire; they will abide eternally therein.} Quran 2:255 & 256 & 257
Fuck. You. I am not so weak or pathetic that I would EVER consider blowing up innocent people, much less trying to make violent suicide seem heroic. And fuck you some more trying to justify suicide bombers. You might not have realised it’s the 21st century yet, but here’s a newsflash: You’re a member of the most backwards, barbarian, vicious, bigotted, misogynistic, xenophobic, lowest-common-denominator faith on this planet. There are things practiced day-to-day in Muslim theocracies that would have been frowned upon by some Western countries 500 years ago.
You conveniently ignored all the points about the way muslims treat other muslims who happen to be female or gay or just don’t want to be muslim anymore, or the violent tantrums thrown by some muslims over fukcing cartoons drawn by non-muslims that are supposedly not subjected to the whole no pictures of Mo BS,unless you’re lying about not forcing others to be muslims. Are you going to claim that the king of Saudi Arabia is somehow oppressed and has no other choice except executing apostates?
@Custador
cool down boy, I know U r not Muslim, but I supposed U have some ethics & manners!
ofcourse if U were in the same position of the suicide bombers then U would do the same what they doing!
get this point real!
also U guys now not in their position but I wonder U ending ur lives by ur own hands!!
go & search in Google to see the rates of suicide commiters in whole over the world, so U will find the Muslims are very less percentage less than 0.01% & Atheist are the high more than 40% …..
also I am defending & justifying every one who fight for their rights & their lands & their faith, & using every POSSIBLE WAYS FOR THAT!!!
I find your continued assertion that I would become a disgusting, amoral murderer to be highly offensive, and I’m a short hair away from losing my temper in fine style. Do not EVER repeat that insult here, about me or any other commenter.
Your statistic about suicides is so fucking absurd as to be actually laughable. I could give a rat’s ass whether or not you want to end your own life – Care factor, ZERO. What does matter to me is that some people want to take other people with them. So yeah, maybe non-Muslims have a higher straight suicide rate, but when it comes to the murder/suicide combo, Muslims knock the ball out of the park every time.
Turn on Al Jazeera some time – You’ll see at least one story about a suicide bomber in Iraq, Afghanistan of Pakistan pretty much every, single week.
Between 20 March 2003 and 31 December 2010, there were over 1000 suicide bombings by Muslims in Iraq alone. 12,284 Iraqi MUSLIMS were killed, and more than 30,000 Iraqi MUSLIMS were injured by them in that period. Muslims killing themselves and other Muslims with explosives. Religion of peace, my fucking arse. In Afghanistan, there were 141 suicide bombings in 2006 alone. Again: Carried out by Muslims, overwhelmingly against other Muslims. Last year, Pakistan averaged one suicide bombing per week. Are you going to tell me that Muslims are a repressed people there, too?
Let’s be clear what you’re justifying: Murder. You are justifying MURDER. End of story. The rest is semantics.
@Yoav
I will tell what my religions saying & teaching, and I am not responsible what some people who belong to my religion but dont follow it….
also there is no any cause of forcing non muslims to convert, we Muslims have in our societies percentage of non muslims like Christians Hindus Bhuddists Jews & sikh..etc
so how they living in all these places under muslim rules and non of them complaint of any such blames?!
also every religion has laws, & as every religion command those who leave it MUST BE PUSHED TO THE DEATH, so does Islam!
as any worldly systems like communism & Capitalism and any country push to death those who rebel agaisnt it, so does Islam!!
so what is the new thing here?!!
and there is no place for “gays” in every society and religion, also Females are treated in Muslim society better and Billion times more nicely than in any other society!
in Muslim society the Females are not used to advertise for a cheep shoe , unlike the other societies who bring the most beautiful women they have to make them advertise for a cheep product & they cant even sell a bottle of pepsi or 7up without making them naked…LOL
Oh look, a No True Scotsman argument. How original.
Here’s a good question: What’s the penalty under Muslim law for apostasy, i.e. for de-converting from Islam?
That would be death, then. My, what enlightened people you are. Oh, no, wait: You make me want to puke,.
Lol … you really are a prat aren’t you. Now just fuck off if that’s ok.
That would be nice if you weren’t fucking lying.
@Sunny Day
why will I lie ? and for what?
our religion is open to every one, & its being teach in every where & U can make comparing religions study…
so there is no way for lie nor any need for it…
It was enough to read your list of 7 prohibitions against killing and then watch you attempt to defend suicide bombing.
I don’t care what your motivations are for lying. Any religion that would teach that is worth pigshit.
@Sunny Day
where in my all words I defended or supported the suicide bombings????????????
I just gave U opinions of two kind of scholars on that…
also these points which mentioned are obligatory in every where & time, so who dont follow it then its their own mistake…
the problem with this reasoning is that thebible did not say that you can get an abortion i recall there being a scripture saying if there are two men fighting and they hit a woman that is pregnant and turns out that her baby dies the man that dose the act have to give a life for a life so god cairs this says god cairs about the embreo witch he created and if you have an abortion you have to give a life for a life
he has regard for all life even as a bastard child
And by regard you mean having the bastard child and even his descendents, up to the 10th generation, shunned and excluded from the community, we clearly have very different idea as to what constitute love and justice.
The bible does not say if you can ride in automobiles or fly planes, or watch TV.
The bible does say to slaughter people for the most unreasonable things, sell children into slavery, and to give away all your worldly belongings.
Thanks for posting more nonsense ezra.
It’s OK. I found his post to be a refreshing break from proper English spelling and punctuation.
Actually, the different translations of Ex. 21 don’t agree on whether the punishment by death is due to hurting the baby or hurting the mother or whether we’re talking accidental or deliberate damage.
Speaking of bastard children, you should read 2 Samuel 12 in which God personally kills the infant son (and bastard child) of David in order to punish David. One of the most revolting cases of injustice in the Bible and a good indicator of how much God cares about infants.
If the bible gives instructions on how to induce a miscarriage, it doesn’t have the same application as someone intentionally abusing a woman in order to cause her to miscarry against her will. You can’t find the quote and apply it, because it’s apples and oranges. Nevertheless, the bible contradicts itself all over the place, so just about anyone can find agreement with what they think and disregard contradictions. Furthermore, the bible isn’t written by any god, it’s just what you believe is written in the book that it is sometimes useful to find passages written IN IT to show you just what a load of crap it is and the many ways you hide from what it actually says if it doesn’t concur with what you want it to say, just like you use it to justify your beliefs to us, which generally has no bearing.
Also, re: god even loves bastards – people can be pretty rotten to a fatherless child of an unwed mother, which although has gotten a little more relaxed, I assume there is a biblical reason that people should hold biblical “propriety” against an infant, but still doesn’t bring evidence for this god that you say loves bastards, much less preclude a woman’s choice to have an abortion. You are using the bible to justify what you wish was true in an attempt to argue your position, disregarding all it says IN THE SAME BIBLE that appears to contradict your beliefs, and seem to be oblivious to what reason an atheist website would have to use your bible to show you the parts you ignore. Way to go, idiot.
No one has said it does. As Sunny mentions it also says nothing of cars or planes. It was at best a book written for a different time.
But those who wish to restrict access to abortion often cite as their reason that god (the god in the bible) is deeply concerned with the value of unborn human life.
There are better reasons to be for (or even against) choice. Really we shouldn’t even have to talk about what ancient rabbis thought modern women should do with their bodies. But when pro-lifers try to make the patently false claim that the bible is opposed to killing children, pointing out that the bible is pro-child-killing is exactly the right answer.
The scripture that you think you recall doesn’t actually say that. The verses you are trying to quote are Exodus 21:22-23. What they actually say is:
Exodus 21:17-23
17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
“So that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischeif follow”. This is actually one of the verses you could use to demonstrate that the authors of the Torah did not consider an unborn child to be a human life (note that the previous verse also explicitly says slaves don’t count as a human life). For some more scripture reading on the topic of how much god cares about the lives of children try Genesis 6:7, Genesis 22:2, Exodus 11:1-5, Leviticus 20:9, Numbers 5:18-31, Numbers 31, Deuteronomy 13:15-16, Deuteronomy 20:16-17, Joshua 10:40, Judges 11:30-36, 1st Samuel 15:1-3, 2nd Chronicles 15:12-13 or Hosea 13:16.
Wherever the idea that all life is sacred in the eyes of god comes from, it did not come from the bible.