Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, recently, eminent British theologian and former Bishop of Durham, N.T. Wright,

famous for his defense of the doctrine of the resurrection, showed a shocking lack of familiarity

with even the most basic moral case against abortion.

Answering a question on his Ask NT Right Anything podcast,

Wright asserted that abortion can sometimes be the best choice.

Quote, there are many, many cases where it's about the mother's health versus the health of the child.

Particularly, as you cited,

in cases of rape and 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 terminate this

pregnancy, end quote. Wright went on to emphasize that killing a later shame the best thing to do is as soon as possible terminate this pregnancy."

Wright went on to emphasize that killing a later term baby is repulsive and rivals the

evils the evils of post-birth and fantaside, which he called pagan and said that early Christians

were correct to oppose. But what is a later term baby? Wright said that he doesn't consider himself qualified to answer that

question, partly because, and I quote again, it's very hard for a man to talk about this. Also, he

considers men who are dogmatic about abortion to be bullying women. He then said, and I quote again,

I'm not medically qualified to say what point I would draw a line when this is a viable human being that should then be cherished, end quote.

So, according to Wright, abortion is sometimes the best course of action, especially in cases of rape, incest, and severe deformity.

In these cases, it should be known with sorrow and shame, but as soon as possible, to avoid committing

the morally repulsive act of late-term abortion, which is comparable to infanticide.

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