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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 ...
In a 1970 Report, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) rejected the old “taboos and prohibitions” and gave its blessing to “mass contraceptive techniques,” homosexuality, and low-cost abortion on demand. The same year, the Lutheran Church in America fully embraced contraception and abortion as responsible choices.
The Joint Commission on Theology and Doctrine of the NALC and Lutheran CORE endorsed an anti-abortion stance on abortion in the document "The Lord Is with You" – A Word of Counsel to the Church – The Sanctity of Nascent Life", on December 14, 2012. [10] The North American Lutheran Church is associated with Lutherans For Life. [11]
Most Americans support access to abortion, including people of many different faiths; 64% of Iowans believe abortion should be legal. As faith leaders from different traditions and denominations ...
We do offer a theological basis for allowing the one who is pregnant and both religious and medical advisors to choose abortion for the mental and/or physical health of pregnant people.
New findings from Lifeway Research and Pew Research Center surveys paint picture of religious voters' support for Trump vs. Harris and top issues.
Abortion is perceived as murder by many religious conservatives. [4] Anti-abortion advocates believe that legalized abortion is a threat to social, moral, and religious values. [4] Religious people who advocate abortion rights generally believe that life starts later in the pregnancy, for instance at quickening, after the first trimester. [5]
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America allows for contraception in the event the potential parents do not intend to care for a child. [68] Laestadian Lutheran Churches do not permit the use of birth control. [69] Neither the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod nor the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod has an official position on ...