Aborting Churches

Unholy death warrants.

By Mark Tooley

Early in January, just in time for the 33rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Episcopal Church reaffirmed its membership in an abortion-rights coalition.

During its January 9-12 meeting in Des Moines, the executive council of the Episcopal Church voted to clarify and affirm its membership in the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC).

RCRC, formerly known as the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, was founded in 1973 with funding from the Playboy Foundation (and later from the Ford Foundation), to organize religious supporters of legalized abortion. RCRC is absolutist in its rejection of any restriction on abortion, defending the legality of partial-birth abortion, and opposing parental-notification laws, as well as other sensible restrictions.

Agencies of the Episcopal Church, United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the United Church of Christ, Reform Judaism, and Conservative Judaism all belong to RCRC. So too does “Catholics for a Free Choice.” RCRC was founded in the wake of Roe v. Wade to counteract Roman Catholic opposition to the Supreme Court ruling.

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1 thought on “Aborting Churches”

  1. Ignoring the moral implications of abortion by giving unqualified support to Roe v. Wade undermines all of the support these churches provide to other worthy causes. Simply put, if you care about the child in poverty, the child in the streets, the child suffering in war, you have to care about the child in the womb as well.

    Reverence for life, especially human life, is an essential core belief of Christianitry. A Christian cannot selectively exclude any segment of humanityfrom that reverence, on the basis of race, ethnicity, physical impairment or gestational age.

    I assume that these churches signed on to support Roe v. Wade as a way to show support for women, and if so this is a very superficial and misguided way to do so because you cannot affirm the dignity of one human life by denying the dignity of another.

    The way to support women is to teach them that their bodies are not for sexual exploitation by men, so as to avoid unwanted pregnancies, provide them with the material and emotional comfort they require should an unwanted pregnancy occur, and help them economically after a child is born, so that inability to care for a child is not a factor in their decision to carry a child to term.

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