[Newspoetry] Abortion

[Donald L Emerick]

JESUS COUNSELED WOMAN TO HAVE ABORTION

Yes, scriptural fans, it's all amazingly true.  Jesus once recommended that a woman He was judging have an abortion.  This little noticed fact is contained in the aftermath of a set-up, where His opponents tried to trap the self-reputed Son-of-God in a moral dilemma.

While He was teaching, out on the edge of town, a maddened mob approached Him.  They dragged a woman hostage with them.  They screamed and yelled about the mortal and fatal sinful act of the woman.  "Jesus, we caught this woman in adultery, in the very act of it!  Shall we not stone her as the Law and the Prophets commanded?"

But, He said that the Law, worthy as it was, required a pure heart to guide hands that would execute its judgment about unclean things.  He sai, "Let the one among you who has no sin cast the first stone."

The crowd was stymied, as it weighed what it would be to take the first act of justice against the accused and, to their way of thinking, already convicted woman.  Each person, in a moment of honest moral conscience, as might be induced by the presence of an alleged moral master, who was speaking directly into the immediate scene of a practical moral dilemma.

One by one, the crowd disappeared -- they melted away, stung by their own individual sense of unworthiness to act blindly, madly, as a lynch mob for the certainty of a moral justice.

Jesus spat on the ground during this time, and doodled in the mud, symbolically no doubt, to remind us all that God allegedly makes all persons, physically, out of the mud of the Earth.  Inversely, there springs up the image, that spiritual things do not arise from this self self mud.  They are, as we would do well to imagine, the gifts of a grace that far exceeds the bounds of physical things like mud, or the physical side of beings like us, who roll in the mud, and thus would seem ever to return to mud.

After a time, Jesus took notice of the void all around Him.  The crowd had vanished, leaving only the woman, still trembling, in fear, before Him.  And surely, if God were to execute such commandments as He gives, then surely Jesus should have chosen to cast the first stone -- unless Jesus saw no necessity for converting moral belief into an activity destructive of other human beings.

No, no, the way of love -- of true love -- never practices death and violence against its Creation -- for showing its ever present imperfections.  What more could be expected of mud than that shows, constantly, that it is mud -- and that it could never be, physically, anything but mud?

Moral action has to let mud rise above itself, by choice -- to allow it to choose to do what it ought to do.  And, thus, moral action must tolerate mud, on those all too many times when mud remains simply mud.

So, what did He do, morally, at last, with this alleged woman, for her alleged adulterous offense?  Well, He sent her to the Temple, for a ritual purging and cleansing.

Now, according to reasonably reliable historical reports, this ritual used aborti-facient potions, to cleanse the inside of the woman, while it also used other purifying agents on the remaining surface area, the so-called skin.

A woman was thus cleansed and purified by the removal of all of the marks of a wrongful sexual encounter.

In short, oh ye of little faith, Jesus sent the woman to have an abortion, because her possible pregnancy would have led to an unwonted birth -- a birth that that woman could not and should not have desired, from that particular sexual encounter.

Therefore, go tell it on the Mountains, tell it to people 
everywhere, Jesus favors abortions, when they favor life, and opposes them when they do not.  Abortion, itself, is a morally neutral act -- an instrument, like any other activity, one that may be used for good or evil ends.  And, those who set it up as purely evil seem to have been either confused or inspired by evil to achieve personifications of false things and fake gods.