Here's the link:
The Kermit Gosnell Verdict: Implications for Pro-Life Lutheran Christians
A statement by LCMS (Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod) Life Ministries
This is not really accurate. The truth is that the denomination has no governing body between our every 4 year policy-setting conference. There is no bishop, group of bishops, agency, or court that is in charge of the denomination.
Therefore, the General Board of Church and Society is not given free reign...as if someone out there was approving of what they do and refusing to make them knuckle under.
There are no controls at all, no one is in charge, and no one is making anyone do anything. Our boards and agencies (all of them, not just GBCS) are loose cannons on deck.
And our "democratic" process with a meeting only once every 4 years makes it virtually impossible to change.
So, these groups and persons pretend to speak for the United Methodist Church, but they don't. They speak for themselves, but they have a UMC name attached to them.
All that said, the UMC has successfully fended off inroads on homosexuality, has improved its position on life (although it's still much lacking), and has implemented a change in representation by number of adherents that will with the help of our African churches, eventually, hopefully see positive changes in all these areas. However, meeting only once every 4 years, it will be agonizingly slow.