This is similar to the whole condemning gay people thing in modern Christianity. Men who had sex with men were common in the Mediterranean world Jesus lived in. In fact he probably ministered to at least one of them. Remember the centurion and his beloved servant? The fact that Jesus chose to never talk about same-gender sex even though it was common and accepted has to tell us something. It has to tell us he wasn’t concerned about it.

The same can be said for abortion. Abortion was common and commonly written about in the Hellenistic Greek world that Jesus was culturally a member of. But he never said anything about abortion. The Greek speaking men who wrote about Jesus’s life and the lives of his disciples never said anything about abortion either. Early Christians for centuries didn’t have a word to say about abortion.

Odd? I think not. I think it shows us that the founders of Christianity did not condemn abortion. I think it shows us that with some clarity. I think modern Christians who started condemning abortion a few decades ago should think about that very carefully.