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So we're on the same page then? God is very clear that He values the lives of women more than the unborn and views them, before birth, as no more substantial or valuable than the slime of a slug that vanishes in the sun. It's very clear:
Abortion on Christian Grounds
A discussion with a Christian elder led to the issues of abortion and gay marriage. To my surprise, he stated that, "the pages are blank" on those issues - meaning they're not in the Bible. It is true. Nowhere in the Bible does it explicitly state, "Thou shalt not abort"....but I don't think the...debatepolitics.com
Psalms 58:8 "Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along, like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun."
Of course there's the other, more well-known, scripture from Exodus 21:22-25 where God is clear that killing the woman is an offense worth killing for, but NOT for killing her unborn...that's a more minor punishment. There are loads of translations of this saying the same.