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THE BOOK OF ENOCH EXPLICITLY LINKS ABORTION KNOWLEDGE TO A FALLEN ANGEL, AND THAT IS WHY PEOPLE WANT IT IGNORED
There is a line in 1 Enoch that modern readers do not want to touch, because it is not subtle.
In 1 Enoch 69:12, the text names a fallen angel and connects him to teaching humanity how to harm life in the womb. In many translations from the Ethiopic tradition, the verse describes instruction related to striking the embryo in the womb so that it passes away.
That is not framed as medicine. It is framed as wicked knowledge.
Enoch places this teaching in the same category as spiritual violence, occult instruction, and manipulation of creation. In that worldview, the issue is not merely personal crisis. It is rebellion against divine boundaries, the same pattern seen in the Watchers story earlier in Enoch.
And here is what people miss.
Enoch does not primarily aim blame at women. It does not make mothers the villain. It traces responsibility upward, to spiritual rebellion, to powers teaching humans to grasp control over life and death.
You do not have to treat Enoch as canonical Scripture to understand why this matters. Jude references Enoch, and early Jewish and Christian communities preserved it because they believed it exposed the spiritual roots behind recurring human patterns.
So the controversy is not just about whether Enoch belongs in a Bible.
The controversy is what the text implies. If abortion related knowledge is described as a destructive, fallen teaching, then the argument is no longer only political or medical. It becomes theological. Are humans stewards of life, or owners of it.
That is why this verse provokes such resistance.
It forces the question modern culture keeps trying to avoid.
