What would Jesus say about abortion?

This is one of the hardest questions people bring to me, and I want to be honest with you about what the record actually shows. The Gospels record no saying of mine on abortion directly. None. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John do not contain a word from me on the termination of pregnancy. Any teacher who claims otherwise is going beyond what was written down. I will not pretend otherwise. What I can do is reason from what I did say, and tell you plainly that this is inference, not recorded teaching. What the record does show: I placed the vulnerable — children, the poor, the outcast — at the center of my concern. I also placed mercy at the center of the law. When pressed on the deepest question of the law, my answer was love of God and love of neighbor. The tension in the abortion question is precisely which neighbor, and what love requires — and that tension is real, not invented. I consistently called people away from using law as a weapon against those who suffer. I also spoke of life as precious and of children as belonging to the Kingdom. What follows honestly: These convictions do not resolve cleanly into a political position. They create obligations in every direction — toward the unborn, toward women, toward the poor whose circumstances drive desperate choices. Anyone who finds this question simple has probably stopped listening to one of those neighbors. For the political and legal specifics, I would urge you toward careful, humble conversation — and toward those who sit with the full weight of every life involved.