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Episcopalian Priest Aborted Her Baby So She Could Finish Divinity School
lifenews.com ^ | March 2, 2016 | Micaiah Bilger

Posted on 03/02/2016 9:11:59 PM PST by Morgana

Abortion advocates across the nation are trying to send the U.S. Supreme Court a message: Women need abortions to be successful.

This insulting notion has been the underlying theme of dozens of stories pro-abortion women have submitted to the high court ahead of its hearing on a Texas pro-life law, which has been credited with saving more than 10,000 babies’ lives. The law is responsible for closing abortion clinics that could not guarantee they could protect the health of Texas women.

The latest pro-abortion story to be highlighted in the mainstream media is that of the Rev. Anne Fowler, an Episcopal priest from New England, who said her abortion allowed her to finish divinity school and become a priest.

Here is her story, according to an amicus brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court:

If the Reverend Anne Fowler had not had access to an abortion when she accidentally became pregnant after enrolling in Divinity School, she would never have been able to graduate, to serve as a parish rector, or to help the enormous number of people whose lives she has touched. Unable to pursue her calling or be the mother she wanted to be for the daughter she already had, she would have been broken.

Fowler, who is active in the pro-abortion movement and is a leader with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, said her husband left her when she was pregnant with her first child. She gave birth to a daughter, and soon felt called to pursue the Episcopal priesthood. In 1982, during her second year at the Episcopal Divinity School, Fowler said she “accidentally” became pregnant again.

She believed her partner would not be a suitable parent; their relationship ended soon after the abortion. Already solely responsible for her daughter, Anne knew she could not complete Divinity School and pursue a career as a priest if she did not have an abortion. She has never regretted her decision and is grateful that she did not have to travel far, which would have caused her additional stress and financial hardship while she cared for her young daughter.

The brief goes on to list Fowler’s accomplishments, which, she said, would never have been possible if she had not aborted her second child – though she never acknowledged that it was a “child.” Fowler currently is a chaplain for Planned Parenthood.

She meets many pregnant women who are very young or struggling economically or emotionally. Many already have children and could not handle more. Their abortions are often life-saving. Anne believes there should be reproductive justice, which means equal access for all women without having to travel further than they would for other health care.

Fowler submitted her story in the same brief as actress Amy Brenneman, who said she “never, not once” regretted having an abortion.

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A lot is at stake in the Texas case Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, scheduled to be heard Wednesday by the high court. The Texas law being challenged requires abortionists to have hospital admitting privileges and abortion clinics to meet the same health and safety standards as other outpatient surgical facilities.

Pro-life U.S. Rep. Diane Black explained the gravity of the case to LifeNews:

Before I came to Congress, I served as a registered nurse. During my time in the emergency room, I cared for a young woman who came to my hospital after undergoing a botched abortion at a clinic that was not properly regulated. When her complications occurred, there was no answer at the after-hours number that she called and by the time she entered my care she was dying and there was nothing that the doctors or I could do to save her.

That young woman lost her precious life; a life that could have been saved if proper regulations were in place to protect her safety and to hold the abortionist accountable. This is what is at stake at the high court.

Black said women’s health advocates should be fighting for the law if they truly care about protecting women.

“Life is precious – whether it is the life of the child in the womb, or that of the young mother facing an unplanned pregnancy – and it deserves to be protected,” Black said. “The deep pockets of the big abortion industry may feel ‘burdened’ by Texas’s compassionate law, but women are not – they are indeed safer as a result.”


TOPICS: Current Events; Mainline Protestant; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: 2evilforwords; abortion; babykiller; deathpanels; episcopalian; murderess; obamacare; priestess; prolife; zerocare
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1 posted on 03/02/2016 9:11:59 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana
Rev. Anne Fowler...an Episcopal priest from New England

So she wasn't a lesbian? Hey, there's something new for Episcopalians

2 posted on 03/02/2016 9:17:02 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Morgana

Priests of Ba’al are bustin’ out all over.


3 posted on 03/02/2016 9:20:57 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Morgana

Not a Christian if she killed a baby.

Selfishness, pure selfishness.


4 posted on 03/02/2016 9:24:23 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

I want to know what they were NOT teaching this woman in that so called divinity school that she would think killing her baby is okay in order to finish it out. She is in the wrong religion if they led her believe there was nothing wrong with that.


5 posted on 03/02/2016 9:27:19 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana
she accidentally became pregnant after enrolling in Divinity School

How da happen?

6 posted on 03/02/2016 9:29:39 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: Cowboy Bob

“How da happen? “

I dunno! Maybe something in the water? /major sarc


7 posted on 03/02/2016 9:32:16 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

may God have mercy...


8 posted on 03/02/2016 9:33:46 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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when she accidentally became pregnant

Yeah, she was driving her car to church one day when BAM she got pregnant by accident.

9 posted on 03/02/2016 9:44:52 PM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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To: PGR88

So she wasn’t a lesbian? Hey, there’s something new for Episcopalians


She was just a run of the mill fornicator.


10 posted on 03/02/2016 9:49:15 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: PGR88

http://rhrealitycheck.org/author/rev-anne-fowler/


11 posted on 03/02/2016 9:55:12 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (My first choice is Trump)
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To: Morgana; Martin Tell; Fledermaus; Black Agnes; Pelham; nopardons; onyx

We have a crazy episcopal priestess here in Nashville who is very loud and liberal but is married with family

She helped get gays in the clergy here

Now she’s a darling of the donor class

I used to know her....she cute once and smoked pot with her and got drunk too

She had daddy issues

Her poor mom caught mad cow visiting her in the UK and later died

Her husband wrote music for a famous country girl group that imploded politically years back

She’s a piece of work but like I said....was fetching in her day

She ran a women’s group my girlfriend was a member of till it imploded from cattiness of which most emanated from her

These women sat around whining about how to save the world and make their men more subservient...lol

They didn’t mess me much....they knew better

Man.......this is what liberals do....project their neurosis and leave everything hollowed out


12 posted on 03/02/2016 9:55:46 PM PST by wardaddy (Ted Cruz endorser of Rubio is off my Christmas list......)
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To: stocksthatgoup

Anne Fowler abortion rock star! Great to be Episcopalian


13 posted on 03/02/2016 9:56:49 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (My first choice is Trump)
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To: Morgana
Fowler currently is a chaplain for Planned Parenthood.

What. The. F***...?!?

14 posted on 03/02/2016 9:58:41 PM PST by Samwell Tarly
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To: Morgana

The Episcopal ‘Church’ stopped being religious a long time ago. Now it’s just a social club that meets on Sundays.


15 posted on 03/02/2016 10:31:26 PM PST by Outlaw76 (Conservative, Showman, Rino. Make your choice wisely.)
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To: Morgana
Fowler, who is active in the pro-abortion movement and is a leader with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, said her husband left her when she was pregnant with her first child. She gave birth to a daughter, and soon felt called to pursue the Episcopal priesthood. In 1982, during her second year at the Episcopal Divinity School, Fowler said she “accidentally” became pregnant again.

She believed her partner would not be a suitable parent; their relationship ended soon after the abortion. Already solely responsible for her daughter, Anne knew she could not complete Divinity School and pursue a career as a priest if she did not have an abortion. She has never regretted her decision and is grateful that she did not have to travel far, which would have caused her additional stress and financial hardship while she cared for her young daughter.

The brief goes on to list Fowler’s accomplishments, which, she said, would never have been possible if she had not aborted her second child – though she never acknowledged that it was a “child.” Fowler currently is a chaplain for Planned Parenthood.

So, the sacrifice of her child was necessary to allow all the good that Fowler has done since?

I guess the Episcopalian Bibles don't have the commandment from God "Thou shall not kill(murder)."

Her whole justification is a lie from the pit of Hell.

The followers of Moloch and Baal had nothing on these modern day justifiers of baby sacrifice.

16 posted on 03/02/2016 10:37:53 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: faithhopecharity

I was also thinking exactly that, and like you, resolutely NOT finishing the sentence because God makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. It’s not easy.


17 posted on 03/02/2016 10:39:17 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: Morgana

Sick, evil, depraved women have done tremendous damage to this nation


18 posted on 03/02/2016 11:00:08 PM PST by montag813
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To: exit82
My family was devastated by the medical bills resulting from my daughter's traumatic, premature birth. My recovery was even harder. Toss in a round of cancer, and we were hanging on by our fingernails, scraping to get by.

When my son, Justin, came along, the doctors braced us for the possibility of severe genetic abnormalities and a life full of challenges. It didn't matter. We were prepared to sell everything and start over, if that was what our children needed.

Thankfully, my son came out perfect, healthy and whole. My daughter is also healthy and whole. I'm the super-proud mom of 3 amazingly bright, good-looking, multi-talented kids.

Life was a nightmarish struggle for a decade; sweating every bill, selling off possessions to keep the roof over our head, watching as God stripped away the trappings till only the truly valuable things remained.

Fowler and her ilk would be shocked to discover my career didn't suffer in the least. When my family needed it, I took a position that allowed me to work from home, completely rocked it, and earned multiple national awards. As we cleared financial hurdles and the kids got older, I took a different position and rocked that, too. I went from Executive Director in the non-profit world to Vice President in the property management world. We just bought our dream home in a stunning community with some of the best-rated schools in north Texas.

Nowhere, in any of this, did I ever think it was okay to destroy the lives God had entrusted to me. Never did I think my "career" was more important than the souls God allowed me to care for. Never would I think that God, the Giver of Life, the One who knew us before He knit us in the womb, would be okay with me voluntarily ending any of my pregnancies. That was not my choice to make, but His!

Creatures like this are the reason why I will NEVER go to a church with a woman pastor, and I'm a woman!

19 posted on 03/02/2016 11:23:30 PM PST by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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To: TheWriterTX

Wow—see, you trusted God, and did the right thing, in spite of all the hardships, and He prospered you.

Each life is unique and precious.

How could a life be throw away for something so ephemeral as a career?

For this “reverend”, the guilt must be rationalized away by believing that some “greater good” outweighed the infant sacrifice that was performed.

Your story sounds like it could be an inspiration to others.

I hope you will write it and publish it.


20 posted on 03/03/2016 12:01:55 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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