Mike Pence Believes the Bible Condemns Abortion


The former VP goes well out of his way to use a passage to justify his anti-abortion opinions. He would do well to be more circumspect. When it comes to understanding society, Pence defines the term "lightweight." So does everyone else who makes his claim about the Bible.

There are members of the Jewish faith who are filing legal protests against states that are outlawing abortions. The reason given is the Jewish faith finds the fetus is not a person. A person, according to the groups interpretation of the Jewish faith, does not qualify as a person until birth. So much for the zealot's word "personhood" or other gimmicks used to crush women's right to abortions.

Pence's interpretation of the Bible also flies in the face of millions of other Christians who do not interpret his favorite passages as advocating the fetus is a person. The old and often used line, "I knew you in the womb" does not translate directly into "you were a human being when you were in the womb." As the link points out other places in the Bible have something different to say about the womb. Any politician who centers his/her political life on anti-abortion is a threat to women everywhere.

Anyone can tell Pence is using abortion as a political weapon. He is trying to peel off Trump's support from evangelicals for Trump. Hubert Humphrey explained what Pence is doing. He is thinking that if he keeps his message really simple, he can garner support from a certain type of voters. As Humphrey pointed out, when a politician goes with a message too simple, he/she the targets of her message can begin to feel talked down to. I think that is why Pence is not peeling off the Republican primary voters he had his eye on. 

Of course, there are all those other problems with Pence's message. He wants to brag about how good the Trump/Pence administration was. One has to ask, "If it was a good administration, why are you now running against Trump? Pence is unclear about everything except that he is a Christian and opposes abortion.

He is clear on two issues few voters care about. 

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