Editor, The Beacon:

I used to call myself a Christian. Evangelical right-wing Christian extremists, in my opinion, have tainted the Christian name. So, I now call myself a follower of Jesus.

Now, I oppose abortion, but not for biblical reasons. I also oppose clandestine abortion clinics. A pregnant rich woman simply goes someplace where abortions are legal. All other pregnant women must go to clandestine clinics, where their health or life may be endangered.

Most of those who oppose abortion call themselves Christians. However, there is not a single verse in the Bible that explicitly condemns abortion or that recognizes a fetus as a human being. Virtually all Scriptures used to imply that a fetus is a human being are in the Old Testament, predominantly written by Jews. Jews generally do not recognize a fetus as a human being, until it takes its first breath, based, in part, on Genesis 2:7, which reads, “Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”

And then, we have Deuteronomy 22:23-24, “If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death — the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.”

So, the adulterers must be stoned to death. Now, if the adulteress is pregnant, her unborn child (the fetus) will be brutally aborted as they are stoned. So, God mandates that the innocent unborn child (the fetus) shall be violently aborted. Therefore, we must conclude that God does not see the destruction of the fetus as the murder of a human being.

I reiterate. I oppose abortion, but I also support a woman’s right to choose.

Michael Wright
Deltona