Abortion is NOT child sacrifice (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

Senator Mike Lee has taken to invoking Moloch online, recasting abortion as ancient child sacrifice to a bloodthirsty god. There's just one problem: there's no good evidence Moloch was ever a god at all — the word points to a type of sacrifice, not a deity — and the Hebrew Bible draws a sharp line between a born person and a fetus. This episode, we untangle the Moloch myth, trace how abortion got built into a political wedge issue, and confront the far thornier texts where it is the God of Israel who seems to be asking for child sacrifice. 

Chapters:

0:00 — Intro

1:49 — Twisted Scripture: Mike Lee

3:29 — The Talarico Tweet

5:20 — Moloch on the Altar

6:38 — Abortion as Child Sacrifice

8:46 — Property, Not a Person

11:50 — Inventing a Wedge Issue

14:31 — The Magic Bullet Vote

16:49 — Moloch Was Never a God

17:58 — Reconstructing Lost Vowels

22:25 — The Milcom Corruption

24:03 — The Bible's Child Sacrifice

26:43 — "Give Me Your Firstborn"

30:47 — What Actually Reduces Abortion

32:42 — Outro

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/_z9O6745SmU?si=E_zx3ZuGLKwZqMhk