Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Protestant supporters of abortion rights include the United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Lutheran Women's Caucus. [12] [82] At its 2016 General Conference, the United Methodist Church voted by a margin of 425 to 268 to withdraw from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. The vote ...
The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a socially liberal mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Restorationist, Continental Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,600 churches and 712,000 members.
[39] The United Church of Christ supports abortion rights, viewing it as a matter of reproductive health and justice. [39] The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) adopts the view that abortion is a personal choice, but acknowledges "diverse conclusions and actions" within the church on the issue. [39]
It is easy to frame the abortion discussion as an either/or, an all-or-nothing debate. However, the issues inherent in abortion are far more subtle. As clergy from various denominations, we seek ...
Some mainline Protestant denominations such as the Episcopal Church, United Church of Christ, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, among others, are more permissive of abortion. [23] The Waldensian Evangelical Church has also favored the legal right to an abortion. [24]
The church hosted a vigil Friday night with Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley to grieve the loss of the constitutional right that was established in 1973 and reaffirmed in 1992 ...
The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) is an abortion rights organization founded in 1973 [1] by clergy and lay leaders from mainline denominations and faith traditions to create an interfaith organization following Roe v.
The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Baptist denomination in the world and largest Protestant denomination in the United States, initially welcomed the invention of birth control and legalization of abortion, but the rise of the Moral Majority 1980s and increased opposition to abortion led to a more nuanced view which generally approves ...