James Talarico doubles down on pro-abortion stance: 'The Bible is silent'
“Noting abortion is ‘an issue that a lot of Christians struggle with, and that there’s a lot of fierce and passionate debate within our faith communities,’ Talarico said he believes that “people of good faith can arrive at different moral conclusions” - CPost
Talarico is making hay with the fundagelical habit of depending on prooftexting for theology. Since surgical or chemical abortion was unthinkable back in Bible times--one would end up with massive and lethal infections--the Scripture does not speak of abortion. It may as well have spoken of supercomputers, really.
Where Talarico goes wrong is, really, where we go wrong; by failing to observe the Bible's overall response to fornication (which drives almost all abortions), Scripture's teaching on the blessing of children, the early church's response to Roman infanticide, and the clear teaching on the humanity of the baby in the womb. Perhaps we might say that Talarico does us a favor by reminding us that many issues are not dealt with well by prooftexts, but by appeal to the depth and breadth of Scripture.
Update: the newspaper of record has noted that Talarico similarly cannot find a reason not to drop kick a labradoodle in the Scriptures.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
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