livefree_ordie, Think Christianity Is Anti-Abortion? Think Again [...] Extremists have sought to use religion as a tool to dominate women’s bodies, but Christians have a long history of being in favor of abortion rights [...] Then, of course, Roe was decided, eventually galvanizing an anti-abortion minority that had been building its own grassroots coalition for the past few decades and that could be drawn into the GOP on this issue alone. With the law on their side — and their hackles raised by the unsavory and baldly political tactics of their more conservative brethren — many pro-abortion-rights Protestants retreated. “As I was coming along in ministry they taught me not to be explicitly ‘Christian’ when I spoke out in the public square, because they didn’t want to, quote, ‘be like the Christian Right,’” says the Rev. Jennifer Butler, founder of Faith in Public Life. “They were embarrassed the Christian Right used their voice in the way that it did.”
What resulted was that more mainline Protestantism seemed to recuse itself from the abortion conversation, ceding the appearance of moral authority to the conservative minority. Yet according to a Pew survey published this past May, a majority of not just religious people but of Christians, specifically, support a woman’s right to abortion care .. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/05/06/americas-abortion-quandary/ .. in some, if not all, cases. Twenty percent of Black Protestants say abortion should be legal without exception; a full 77 percent of white evangelicals think it should be legal at least sometimes. Fifty-nine percent of Christians in the United States did not want Roe overturned .. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/03/with-religion-related-rulings-on-the-horizon-u-s-christians-see-supreme-court-favorably/. And as evidence for the notion that some people who malign the abortions of others may be far more lenient when facing the prospect of their own unwanted pregnancy, a 2014 Relationships in America survey .. https://www.thearda.com/Archive/Files/Descriptions/FS14.asp .. found that while conservative women were much more likely to oppose abortion, they were only slightly less likely to have had one.
[Insert: It's called crass conservative Christian hypocrisy.]
In fact, for many Christians, and especially in the lead-up to Friday’s landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, speaking up in support of abortion access has become increasingly important
* Anti-abortion is not pro-life
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, March 25, 2021
To be anti-abortion is to not be pro-life. More often than not, pro-lifers I have met have not been so vocal about causes like education, income equity and healthcare as they have been about their hypocrisy and moral superiority. There is nothing Christian about restricting healthcare and chastising women who are faced with an impossible choice. Those same individuals who are so vocal about saving fetuses because they are also human lives are the ones who turn their cheeks to injustices committed against brown and Black folk, the LQBTQ community, disabled folks, the poor and the marginalized.
Right to Life week is no exception.
Right to Life week prides itself on following Christ’s mission by advocating for the sanctity of life. It focuses on abortion, discussing Roe v. Wade, hosting a “safe” space to debate abortion (this year, the debate is hosted by two male students!) and praying for lost unborn lives. While at its core, the intentions of the club and those who share similar views are good, the sanctity of human life does not end after you convince a woman not to have an abortion. Fundamentally, there is nothing wrong with being pro-life — as long as you are actually pro-life. Often, the pro-life movement begins and ends at conception.
Catholic Social Teaching emphasizes that life at all stages should be respected and protected, from conception to natural death. We should each be advocating for the protection of all lives, starting with the ones actively suffering. Very often, I hear silence from the same students and peers who claim to be pro-life when faced with civil and human rights violations, especially of the marginalized. Last summer, when so many of our peers were hurting and mourning the lost lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and countless other lives to police brutality, I only heard silence. When Hyun Jung Grant, Xiaojie Tan, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz, Yong Ae Yue, Suncha Kim, Soon Chung Park and Daoyou Feng were murdered in an act of xenophobic domestic terrorism, I only heard silence. When immigrants detained in ICE detention centers at the border were revealed to have inadequate care, limited access to food and had to endure abuse, I only heard silence. When the U.S. Government rewrote Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, allowing health providers and insurance companies to deny and discriminate against trans people, I only heard silence.
Their selective outrage speaks volumes. To be pro-life is to protect human life at all stages, of all races, gender identities, sexualities and ethnicities. Being pro-life means advocating for better education, fighting to break the cycle of poverty, for equality in medicine, housing and jobs to make sure every person gets to live a life consistent with their inherent human dignity — not one plagued by poverty, illness, inequality and lack of basic resources.
I call on all of my peers who label themselves as pro-life to reconsider what their definition of pro-life means to them. If your definition of pro-life does not include the marginalized, the impoverished, the sick, sinners amerand all of your peers, I ask you to reconsider calling yourself pro-life.
Natalie Ortega
sophomore
March 22
The views expressed in this Letter to the Editor are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
Thought: Is a woman's body her property? Then surely extreme state abortion laws violate ; No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
the 14th amendment. Still, as we know...
Whose rights are the most right? The Dilemma of Autonomy in a Society: On Abortion, Women, and Human Life
Published 23 Jul 2016 Nina Roxburgh
In debates on reproductive rights, the moral status of the embryo and fetus is largely at the centre of analysis. Women’s interests and choices have been only incorporated fully in the discussion since the 1970s. Subsequently, a growing number of Supreme Court decisions and government efforts throughout the world have led to the wider recognition of the right to abortion, or in some cases, the right to privacy which leads to a right to abortion. This trend has seen the increase in identifying abortion as a women’s health issue, rather than a question of the embryo’s or fetus’ right to life. However, [ however in red America ] there is still strong opposition to the legalisation and decriminalisation of abortion from Catholic moral philosophers and other pro-life advocates. The primary conflict between feminist philosophers and pro-life advocates is the weighing of one set of rights over another (if it is accepted that the embryo or fetus have any claim to rights). https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170889118
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