What is an unborn fetus considered to be a part of?
This is not difficult to determine through the various examples given within the Old and New Testaments. Just like the hair of the person is a part of the person, and the person has complete charge over his own hair (or the nails on the hands and feet are a part of the person), so a fetus growing in the womb of a mother-to-be is considered to be a part of the woman and is under her complete control as far as the legal aspect is concerned. This has to be the case because in the Book of Job, as pointed out before, the patriarch makes the definite statement that as long as he (or any other fetus) was in the womb of the mother, it is reckoned as NOT HAVING BEEN (Job 3:16). The fetus is really an appendage of the woman and she has control over it (in Gods eyes) as she does her hair or fingernails. There is not a teaching in the Bible that would counter this position. Even a tumor (a growth on or in the body) is always considered to be a part of the womans body. For legal purposes, it could
