‘Would Jesus Wear a Sidearm?’

[DetlefK]

1. Interestingly, the Bible forbids murder but not abortion.

IIRC murder=bad.

And abortion was pretty normal and a necessity of life back then. Condoms were hideously primitive and basically non-existent. Medical contraception was also practically non-existent. (There was a flower that could be made into a powerful medication to prevent pregnancy. The Romans harvested it to extinction...)

Every single time you had sex, there was a risk, the woman would become pregnant. People fuck, the woman gets pregnant, and 9 months later the community has a person to feed it just cannot afford to feed.

Prostitutes were pregnant all the time and regularly had abortions. Archeologists found an ancient brothel with a baby-cemetery nearby. (This was the extreme version of "late-term abortion": The skeletons were males babies only. The female babies were left alive.)



http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/says_about/abortion.html

So, it's an interesting choice of words for a pastor to talk about "adult abortion".