Is Jesus Pro-Life?

I returned to my car this evening after jogging on the beach to find a message written on a napkin and pinned under my left windshield wiper:

JESUS IS PRO-LIFE

CHOICE KILL BABIES

DON'T BE A HYPOCRITE

I presume this is a response to my bumper stickers, which include:

"Pro-Family, Pro-Faith, Pro-Choice" and

"Prayerfully Pro-Choice."

I wonder: Is Jesus pro-life?

Well, we're all in favor of life--the anti-abortion people own one of the most positive words in any language to express their position: life.

Is Jesus against women having the legal right to end a pregnancy in the first few weeks of gestation?

In the case of any one teenager who is pregnant, whether by rape or her own misguided choices, does Jesus want her to bear that child?

Would he mind terribly if she gave that life back to its Maker and continued to live as a child, not a mother?

I don't think so.

I could see him telling those who gathered to condemn such a girl, "Let the one who is without sin throw the first stone."

He might then say to her, "Neither do I condemn you... go your way. Try not to get into this kind of a crisis again."

Note: I collected personal stories by Christian women on this subject in a book published in 1994: Abortion--My Choice, God's Grace: Christian Women Tell Their Stories (available on Amazon or from Hope Publishing in Pasadena, CA).