Samantha Bee’s ‘Full Frontal’: Since Religions Argue When the Soul Enters the Body, No Abortion Bans

Activist talk show host Samantha Bee recently had two women on her TBS show ‘Full Frontal’ who argued that “a small minority  of religious people are basing laws that will affect my body on the idea that at conception the fetus has a soul.” 

The women were responding to the Mississippi law that would make it almost illegal to have an abortion after 15 weeks, unless a medical exemption arises. The women argue that a small majority of religious people are basing this law on the idea that “at conception the fetus has a soul.” They argue that since the major religions don’t agree on when this happens, there shouldn’t be an abortion ban.

Although religions may differ in their views on the time when the soul enters the physical body, we have finally solved the mystery of when it leaves. pic.twitter.com/2ZOGO056AZ

— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) February 8, 2022

Woman 1: “There are no two ways to read the Mississippi law. It’s intent is to move the goal posts and make getting an abortion harder. Why? A small number of religious people believe that the conception of a fetus is a spiritual event. And that’s something that even The Majors don’t agree on. For the first 40 days, the Fetus is considered water by the Talmud. That would be about seven to eight weeks of gestation.”

Woman 2, The Quan states that after 120 days, the soul is absorbed into the body. And that is roughly 17 and a half weeks.”

Samantha Bee: “Is there anything that your respective religions say about when the soul leaves the body? Like is it when you run for office?”

The women conveniently left out Jeremiah 1:5 (Old Testament), “before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.” 

This basically means that unborn fetuses can have souls right from the start – at most one would believe so.