N.T. Wright Says Abortion Ok in Cases of Rape and Incest? ‘The best thing to do is as soon as possible to terminate this pregnancy.
New Testament scholar NT Wright has shared further thoughts on the murder of children in the womb, offering that while he’s no scientist and it’s tough for him to talk about the issue on account of him being a man and not a woman, that he believes there are exceptions for rape and incest, as well as the mental health of the mother who can’t bear having a child with a fetal deformity.
Wright previously revealed that he thinks a substantial element of the pro-life movement is just “people nervous about sex” who get manipulated by “powerful men telling women what they could and couldn’t do” and that the people trying to stop abortion are unknowingly serving the god of war.
In a recent episode of the Premier Unbelievable?, Wright offers:
.. There are many, many cases where it is about the mother’s health versus the health of the child or whatever. And particularly that, as you cited, in cases of rape or in cases of incest, there may be a very, very strong argument for saying this ought never to have happened. And with sorrow, because we do not want to do this in principle, but with sorrow and a bit of shame, the best thing to do is as soon as possible to terminate this pregnancy.
Now, I’ve seen the debates, I’ve read books about the debates as to at what point it’s okay or at what point it becomes not okay. And I know that in my own country, people have pushed for the legislation to be allowed to say right up to the moment before the woman is ready to give birth, that if they decide for whatever reason on an abortion, then that’s okay. And that I find not only wrong but repulsive.
He continues that the pagans used to leave recently born babies out on the rocks to die, which “in principle this is not something which we should welcome, it is not something which we should collude with.” But when it comes to aborting babies still in the womb:
At the same time, there may be certain exceptions of which severe deformity might be one, of which certainly incest and rape would be others, and in those cases I would say ‘the sooner the better’ because at a certain point -and I am not medically qualified to say at what point I would draw a line- then this is a viable human being that should then be cherished.
He concludes:
So the whole debate about the woman’s rights, it’s very difficult, it’s very hard for a man to talk about this. And indeed one of the problems has been, particularly in the Roman Catholic Church, when women, particularly say a girl who’s been raped or who’s had incest committed on her, then discovering that unmarried men from the Catholic hierarchy are telling her what she can and can’t do.
As people now say, the optics of that are pretty bad. That’s part of the same system of male bullying, which we have to avoid like the plague.
However, having said that, I do think that that sense of respect for God’s creation in all its rich variety is the primary starting point, even if we then have to say with sorrow and a certain sense of this is the least worst option in this situation that there may be some cases of exceptions.
That’s about as far as I can get at the moment. And as I say, I’m very much aware of just how sensitive this topic is politically, sociologically, as well as ethically.
Bonus content. In 2006, Wright claimed that it’s possible to be a Christian and deny the bodily resurrection of Christ,
“I have friends who I am quite sure are Christians who do not believe in the bodily resurrection… But the view I take of them–and they know this–is that they are very, very muddled.
They would probably return the compliment. Marcus Borg really does not believe Jesus Christ was bodily raised from the dead. But I know Marcus well: he loves Jesus and believes in him passionately. The philosophical and cultural world he has lived in has made it very, very difficult for him to believe in the bodily resurrection. I actually think that’s a major problem and it affects most of whatever else he does, and I think that it means he has all sorts of flaws as a teacher, but I don’t want to say he isn’t a Christian.
I do think, however, that churches that lose their grip on the bodily resurrection are in deep trouble and that for healthy Christian life individually and corporately, belief in the bodily resurrection is foundational.”
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N.T. Wright needs to repent of this heresy.
Is this the same Norman Wright who’s a theistic evolutionist and literally sings the praises of Nazi ghoul Francis Collins?
Rape/Incest. Simple but profound question. Do you punish/kill a child for the sins of its father? Your thoughts.
In the OT God killed Bathsheba’s rape baby to punish David the rapist.
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