Letter to the editor: Jesus never approved of abortion

I couldn’t help agreeing somewhat with letter-writer Dave Ninehouser’s declaration that Jesus, nowhere, specifically calls out the evil of abortion (“Jesus never preached about abortion,” May 20, TribLIVE). There are many words that are missing in the records as coming from the mouth of Jesus. But Jesus called abortion evil when he gave the Ten Commandments to Moses. Specifically, thou shalt not kill.

We argue a lot about when a fetus is considered a living being. As science progresses, this timeline continues to shrink in the direction of the point of conception. Some will never accept this scientific fact. But that does not make it false. It only shows those folks as ignoring reality in their closed-mindedness.

But, to be sure, there is nothing written anywhere attributed to Jesus that could be interpreted as his approval of abortion. Such a misleading thought should never cross our minds.

Gil Brezler

Penn Township, Westmoreland County