pro-choice

Tribal Church

When patriarchy trumps theology

Why would someone say they're pro-life and be against gun control?

Jan 24, 2013 by Carol Howard Merritt
If life is the most important thing in a political and theological belief system, then why would a person support the death penalty, back wars and oppose gun violence prevention?
Blogging Toward Sunday

Worship with the other side

John 1:6–8, 19–28

Dec 05, 2011 by Bill Goettler

In October, a newly formed Right to Life group sponsored a week-long conference, entitled "Abortion and Feminism," on the campus of Yale Divinity School. The pro-choice posters posted by the Students for Reproductive Justice made it clear that seminarians are not of one mind on the issue.

In the World

A pro-choice GOP frontrunner?

Oct 21, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

I don't normally go for gotchas based on political candidates' rambling improvisations. But this one is hard to ignore: when Herman Cain appeared on Piers Morgan this week, he first told Morgan that he's opposed to abortion in all circumstances.

Editor's Desk

Pro-choice perspective

On the occasion of George Tiller's death
Jun 30, 2009 by John M. Buchanan
The murder of abortion provider George Tiller prompts me to do something I do not like to do—venture into the issue of abortion. My hesitation is not because I do not have a position. I do. I believe that matters of reproductive rights and responsibilities are most appropriately left to the woman who is pregnant, her religious and moral conscience and her physician.
News

Will Tiller murder alter abortion debate?

Committed Christians on both sides of issue
Jun 30, 2009
The setting of the murder of physician George Tiller—a Sunday morning inside the Lutheran church where he was a member—counters the image of late-term abortion providers as secularists, casting him more as a churchgoing martyr than a godless murderer.
News

According to one poll, majority is 'pro-life'

Different results on question of whether abortion should be legal
Jun 16, 2009
Conservative groups are hailing—and some pro-choice commentators are questioning—a new Gallup poll that finds that a majority of Americans now describe themselves as pro-life.
News

Common ground elusive in abortion debate

Obama's Notre Dame commencement address
Jun 16, 2009
Will President Obama’s plea for common ground on abortion during his speech at the University of Notre Dame persuade ardent abortion opponents to work with the new president? At first glance, it seems unlikely.