Fair point. The Old Testament has some difficult passages, and I don't claim to know completely how to think about them.
"The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away." The utter sovereignty of God is a theme of the Old Testament, to be sure. If God commands the destruction of a people, it must be just, because God is just.
Abortion is different because God is not commanding it.
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