Criminalizing Abortions Is Not Christian Behavior, take 2

It's an interesting strategy to differentiate between Laws and Jesus' words - as if Jesus' words are merely advice. Jesus said he came to fulfill the law. "Turn the other cheek" is a fulfillment of "eye for an eye." Moses got us as far as taking revenge within reason, but Jesus got us all the way there: to refusing to take revenge at all. You said: "So when you say Jesus wants something new I believe you are correct in the sense of its personal application of how we interact with each other." But you disagree that this new sense of love applies to politics or government? I believe that is where it is needed the most! I believe that another world is possible where ALL life is valued. This would mean no abortions, yes. But it would also mean no death penalty - and no war! I see that you find the life of a fetus to be infinitely valuable. But what about the life of the person having an abortion? You say she should be killed. This is an inconsistent ethic of life. The ethic of Jesus is one of a person who forgave even the murderers being hung on the crosses next to him. You say that it is the job of a Christian politician to criminalize abortion and make the penalty death. I believe the job of a Christian politicians is to save lives and make life better for everyone - the way Jesus did. I don't see how you can possibly assert that Jesus is not addressing the death penalty in John 8. THEY ARE ABOUT TO STONE A WOMEN TO DEATH. How is that NOT about the death penalty? She is about to get punished for something that in Jewish Law gets the death penalty. Leviticus 10:20 - "If a man commits adultery with another man's wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death." The people in this account lived by this law. Jesus could have said, "Go on! Stone her!" and no one would have batted an eye. But instead, Jesus brilliantly diffuses the tense situation and saves the women's life - the life she should have lost, according to the law. If Jesus were following the letter of the law (as you're suggesting concerning "eye for an eye") he would have threw the first stone himself. But he's not. He's following the spirit of the law which says, "love one another." Shouldn't we as Christians love young girls with unplanned pregnancies by helping them through their situations? Or shall we threaten them with death? You say that Jesus would never sentence someone to death, simply because he was never a judge, executioner, governor, etc. But here we see the Pharisees asking him point blank - "Should we kill her?" Jesus says, "If you've never sinned, go ahead and kill her." Effectively, only someone without sin can condemn another person. And what about the people who ARE in these positions? The word "Christian" literally means "like Christ". CHRISTIAN leaders are called to make decisions the way Jesus would, to the best of there ability. So where ever you have a Christian judge, a Christian executioner, and so on, you have Jesus faced with this decision on whether to kill or not kill. I should clarify my closing question from last round. When I said that the person in question could not afford a live birth, I meant she simply COULD NOT AFFORD IT - that she doesn't even have enough money. It would be impossible for her to fund the birth. She doesn't have the family, her family doesn't have the money, and Christian groups are too busy protesting abortions to help her raise the money. If there is no way she can afford the live birth and is FORCED to get an abortion, what do we as Christians do? Kill her, or find the NEXT girl faced with this awful decision and give her the love, support, and financial means to make the right one? I agree with you that governments shouldn't fund abortions. That money would be better spent helping young women go through prenatal care, give birth to the baby, and find suitable parents to adopt the child. Unfortunately, that is time-consuming and expensive, and many lawmakers find it easier to support a women's right to choose an abortion. And many young women make this decision as well. Not because they have no respect for human life, but because they're scared, poor, and unable to find any other option. Unfortunately, the only other option (on the political spectrum) besides the Pro-choice crowd, is the Pro-LIfe crowd, who care unendingly for the life of the fetus, but through their negligence show little to no care for the young girl in question. They want to bring punishment to the girl in hopes that it will discourage others from getting an abortion. If they succeed, it will only push more girls into ILLEGAL abortions - which are much more dangerous and could kill both the fetus AND the girl! If the criminalization of abortions is ineffective in preventing abortions and actually endangers more of the young women who are looking for them, what good does it do? Isn't it just a hollow "moral victory" that the Pharisees were looking for when they brought the adulteress to Jesus? I ask you Leonitus, as a Christian who believes in a life-affirming, life-changing God who came to earth as a human being to die so that no one else would have to pay for their sins, wouldn't it be better to reach out to these girls, help them in their time of need (like Christ did for us) than it would be to threaten them with punishment?