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> while Jesus Christ never gave to abortion the slightest mention Did the U.S. Constitution give abortion the slightest mention? No, the right to abortion was
by jawns 4y ago
> while Jesus Christ never gave to abortion the slightest mention
Did the U.S. Constitution give abortion the slightest mention?
No, the right to abortion was inferred from a right to privacy, which was inferred from several amendments that did not explicitly mention abortion or privacy. The Ninth Amendment does makes allowance for rights that aren't explicitly enumerated, but it doesn't really give any guidance on how to know what those are.
Similarly, many Christian denominations recognize that Jesus didn't need to explicitly mention every single moral issue for the Church to develop doctrine around them. Heck, even the doctrine of the Trinity, a core doctrine of mainstream Christianity, requires some level of inference from Scripture.
So if your argument is that Jesus needed to explicitly mention abortion for there to be any justifiable Christian doctrine about it, you're applying a different standard than the standard that was used to define a constitutional right to abortion in the first place.
- thomastjeffery 4y agoAs far as Christianity goes, equating Abortion to murder has only recently become the popular interpretation. Not only is it written multiple times in The Bible that life begins at breath, The Bible even contains instructions on how and when to perform abortion. As far as the constitution goes, amendments are treated as part of the text, not gotchas. The constitution protects your right to keep the contents of your pockets and your home private. Why not the contents of your uterus?