The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur Argues: ‘The Bible is Actually Pro-Abortion’
While discussing anti-abortion amendments that passed in Alabama and West Virginia this week, Cenk Uygur, a progressive pundit and founder of The Young Turks, made the case for the Bible actually being “pro-abortion.”
“You’re wrong about your Bible, you’ve been misled, you’ve been lied to,” Uygur said in a segment posted to YouTube yesterday. “Your religious and political leaders have kept you in ignorance. The Bible is actually pro-abortion, that’s a fact.”
He then read off several Bible verses from the book of Numbers, in-which the author writes about aborting a pregnancy if a woman cheats on her husband:
“The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord. Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water… If you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband’ — here the priest is to put the woman under this curse— ‘may the Lord cause you to become a curse among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”
“It is clear as day, there is no question about it, if you don’t believe it just read the Bible, it’s pro-abortion, it’s not even pro-choice, it’s pro-abortion,” Uygur added. “I didn’t say it, your God said it! You going to listen to it or not?”
“It was never about the Bible, the Bible says the opposite; it was always about controlling women,” he concluded.
Earlier in the segment, Uygur referred to Alabama as “Saudi Alabama,” comparing the new laws to religious, misogynistic practices in the gulf state.
“If you’re a woman get out, get out, before Kavanaugh and the other guys take away Roe vs. Wade,” the pundit said. “Otherwise, they’re going to take away your rights, and they’re going to put you in prison. That’s what they do in Saudi Arabia.”
Alabama declared that the state is dedicated to “the rights of unborn children” and “support the sanctity of unborn life” and ruled that abortion rights are not constitutionally protected.
West Virginia’s amendment “secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of abortion.”
For pro-choice advocates, these measures are troubling because they could result in the total banning of abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned or if the Supreme Court throws the issue to the states.
Watch above, via The Young Turks.
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