Scriptures aren’t medical guides
Abortion isn’t a religious issue from Scripture, as penned by Mary Moe (Aug. 12). Abortion is a medical procedure, and Moe should be just as concerned about a living gall bladder being ripped from a person’s body and sold for medical research. Gall is often referenced as a bad thing in religious writings.
Moe’s upside-down argument could be applied to a host of political issues made religious. Black people, for example, were thought to be cursed by God.
I suppose Moe thinks that sex education is harmful to sexually active teens, and that they should remain ignorant. If you don’t want abortions, then stop defunding birth control and calling the biological function of reproduction sinful.
It’s upside down to think that Scriptures are medical guides. I would like Moe to find a passage in the Scriptures that addresses the morality of in vitro fertilization. She would likely find it an abomination and violation of God’s will, but, alas, microbiology didn’t exist when the Scriptures were translated and edited.
Moe’s Scriptures don’t address abortion. But greed, envy and gluttony could be the subject of Moe’s next letter.
Pete Scobby
Newport