When One Looks at the Facts, Abortion is NOT a Sin


Catholics and many Protestants have made up a new rule in religion: Abortion is a sin. It is not. It is not Christian to force a woman to carry a fetus against her will. 

I mention often how late much of Protestantism was to condemn abortion. The link lays out the history. In 1970 a Southern Baptist group surveyed Baptist preachers. Seven in ten approved of abortion in nearly all cases. Their main concern was for the mental and physical health of the woman.

In 1976, 1977 and 1979 the Southern Baptist Convention passed resolutions to limit the role of government in the abortion decision. This was anything but a condemnation of abortion or the bonkers notion abortion is murder of a human being. The reversal by the SBC has been so wide and far reaching we at this moment have the religious view of abortion enforced by vigilantes.

The Bible does not state with any certainty life begins at one fertilized cell. It does not say abortion is a sin. I've read comments by readers on this blog abortion angers God. It angers individual anti abortion zealots and they assign to God a view that God never revealed in the Bible. Good manipulators are these zealots. As the link author, a Biblical scholar, writes, "In the Bible, God consistently tells us all humans are moral agents, fully capable to making their own decisions."

That Republican politicians saw opportunity helped to push anti abortion to the place where it is in the Texas legislature. The force behind the Texas law began in the 1970's when Southern Republicans were alarmed at the rise of black Americans. They were searching for an issue they could ride that avoided mentioning the racial bias they hoped to put in place. They stumbled on abortion and have been milking it ever since. 

The backlash to anti abortion Texas and Mississippi is developing. I read that a national organization started for the purpose of funding travel for women who need to travel from where to live to another state to get an abortion started recently with just a few volunteers. Now the fund has $10 million and a large staff tracking where and how women can travel. 

Today the case against the Texas vigilante law against abortion was heard in the Supreme Court. It sounds to me like one or two of the appointees who were to guarantee anti-abortion decisions are going to have technical reasons to support continued abortion rights. Between the lines of their legalize will be the message, "This bunch of anti-abortion whackos are bat-$hit crazy."

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