Just a little thought exercise

I would assume that during the Roman Empire prostitutes likely had their fair share of abortions (actually if you just do a quick internet search for abortion and Roman Empire, there are tons of resources on the topic, and scanning across them, it looks abortion in general was fairly common across all classes). Now in the Bible, in Luke, there is a story where Jesus meets a prostitute. He does forgive her her sins, but if Jesus would care as much about abortion as today’s evangelicals make you believe he did (for most conservative Christians abortion seems to be the only thing they take away from the Bible) then wouldn’t he have specifically mentioned abortion as part of her sins? Afterall, he was fully aware of who the woman was and he knew she sinned, but after forgiving her, he even holds her up as a positive example compared Pharisee who were also with him at the time. So, considering this, considering the fact that Jesus had a prime opportunity to raise the issue of abortion, but didn’t, I would assume that other issues such as love your neighbor or help the poor, were higher, much higher priorities to him.

Carsten Schmidt @carstens