Twisted Scripture

This morning, my coffee over facebook was disturbed by this little article from CNS News.  While it certainly feels like a knife in the gut for a Christian to hear a person claiming to represent Christ say that it is a woman's God-given right to murder her child, it is not really surprising.  I don't hear it a lot but since Scripture has been twisted to support so many other false teachings, it should be expected that people can bend the Word of God to justify infanticide.

While I'm never truly surprised about this sort of thing I am always perplexed.  Why?  Why do people feel the need to so utterly convolute the Word of God in order to excuse their immoral behavior?  I have heard people try to use Scripture to excuse everything from extra-marital affairs to child abuse.  Wouldn't it be simpler, though, if those people, who so want to disobey God, were just to leave the Church?  It would sure make their Sunday's easier.  They could sleep in, mow the lawn, watch the game, commit any number of transgressions, and be happier for it.  Why do they need to hear from the pulpit the lie that God condones their lifestyle choices?

I have no answer so if you do feel free to let me know.  As for this debacle, Priests for Life has a page that answers all the "Scriptural" arguments for abortion.

(Disclaimer: I am Protestant, not Catholic, but trying to find scholarly evangelical works on abortion or medical ethics is like trying to find a Blue Dog Democrat...I don't think they exist.)