Speaking of Jesus. . . .

There is the Biblical story of the woman who was caught in adultery and brought to Jesus for judgment (actually, knowing Jesus' feelings about capital punishment, it was an attempt to trap him into preaching against the established law, which said that an adulteress was to be stoned to death). Jesus, knowing what they were up to, yanked the rug out from under them by saying, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." They all stood around looking guilty, and after a few moments, dropped the stones they were ready to hurl at the woman, and wandered off, muttering to themselves. Jesus turned to the woman and said, "Go. And sin no more."

But while those who wanted to stone the woman were presenting their case, arguing, and quoting the law, as he listened to them, Jesus is said to have knelt down and, with his finger, wrote something in the sand. But the Bible doesn't record what he wrote, and this has been the subject of some speculation among Bible scholars. A theologian of my acquaintance once said, "I think I know what Jesus wrote. He wrote, 'Where is the man?'"

FYI:—

The laws proposed in an attempt to ban so-called "partial birth abortion" are ". . . vague and broad, with the potential to restrict other techniques in obstetrics and gynecology. It fails to use recognized medical terminology and fails to define explicitly the prohibited medical techniques it criminalizes." [Quoted from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on the Subject of "Partial-Birth Abortion" Bans, July 8, 2002]

The term "partial-birth abortion" is a Trojan Horse. "Partial birth abortion" does not refer to any established medical procedure. It is a term invented by anti-choice activists. Among a number of procedures prohibited by the proposed "partial birth abortion" laws are "D&X" (dilation and extraction), which is the standard procedure for performing an abortion. Which means the laws are intended to ban all abortions. Anything that might actually be considered a "partial-birth abortion" would have to take place late in the third trimester—the last three months of the pregnancy. Long-standing, unchallenged statutes in 40 states and the District of Columbia prohibit elective abortions by any method after fetal viability. Moreover, women do not carry healthy pregnancies for seven or eight months and then abort on a whim. On those extremely rare occasions when third-trimester abortions are performed, they are done because the fetus has severe or fatal anomalies or because the pregnancy endangers the life or health of the woman. In these cases, the existing statutes do not apply because it is a matter of of medical necessity, and is, therefore, not "elective."

Don Firth