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‘My Congregation Trusts Women’: Progressive Faith Groups Counter Anti-Abortion Narratives (barf)
Texas observer ^ | AUG, 28, 2019 | Sophie Novack

Posted on 08/28/2019 10:04:01 PM PDT by Morgana

On a scorching afternoon in mid-July, clergy members gathered outside a small unmarked building tucked away in a business complex in North Austin. They filed inside, up the stairs, and into the waiting room of the Whole Woman’s Health abortion clinic. There, Christian and Jewish leaders stood in a circle and sang phrases in chorus: Hallelujah. Do not fear. You are loved. Bless this room. Bless this womb.

The 20 or so people had assembled not to protest, but to bless the clinic, burning sage in the exam rooms and reading patient and staff testimonials. “We’re gathered together today to affirm this as a sacred space,” said Reverend Cari Jackson, with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. “To affirm this as a space in which people meet God, in ways that some might not understand. … In the cacophony of noise today, it is important that we gather in spaces and affirm the blessing, lest we begin believing the noise.”

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TOPICS: Judaism; Mainline Protestant; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: 2evil4words; abortion; christian; jewish; prolife
“Let’s be clear, there is nothing in the Christian scripture that condemns abortion—it just ain’t in there.”

It "ain't" there? Yep yep yep yep yep yep yep. FReepers will let the rest of you take that whole sentence on. I know it's there.

1 posted on 08/28/2019 10:04:01 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana
Exo 21:22  If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
Exo 21:23  And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Exo 21:24  Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Exo 21:25  Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

I.e., if a premature birth is induced, the parties involved will pay in proportion to the damage done to the prematurely delivered baby. A life for life, an eye for eye, etc.

Basically - ‘Thou Shalt not kill (murder)’.

2 posted on 08/28/2019 10:33:57 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Morgana

“Progressive Faith Groups”

Now there’s a contradiction in terms if I’ve ever seen one!


3 posted on 08/28/2019 10:58:55 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: Morgana

THe congregation is a bunch of pimp soy boys who found a spot to avoid having to support women they impregnate.


4 posted on 08/28/2019 11:33:57 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: JudgemAll

Most pro choice men are


5 posted on 08/28/2019 11:45:26 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

What faith does a progressive have though?

Satanism, paganism and other trendy ones of course. Then I guess some may even create their own “christian” god by leaving out the word and justifying all.


6 posted on 08/28/2019 11:49:35 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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To: Morgana

Praise moloch.


7 posted on 08/29/2019 12:03:18 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Morgana

“Let’s be clear, there is nothing in the Christian scripture that condemns abortion—it just ain’t in there.”


Hint: You want to know why God commanded the Israelites to kill all the Canaanites? It was the sacrifice of their children to Moloch and the Baals.


8 posted on 08/29/2019 1:10:52 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Morgana

I wouldn’t want to be that ‘Reverend’ standing in front of Jesus on Judgment day.


9 posted on 08/29/2019 2:30:32 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: Morgana

They “trust” women to be completely incapable of controlling their own fertility, and support deceiving women about pregnancy to prevent them from becoming baby machines.

If they genuinely trusted women, they would be educating women on pregnancy, facts about fetal development, and options to prevent pregnancy. The actions of the pro-abort advocates show they do not trust women with knowledge or autonomy. They just want to preserve the ill-gotten profits of the abortion industry.


10 posted on 08/29/2019 3:46:48 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Morgana

If women truly controlled their bodies they wouldn’t need abortions.


11 posted on 08/29/2019 6:19:55 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Morgana
Interesting how the pro-abort side is making more explicitly religious arguments than the "religious right".

Abortion is to them a sacrament.

12 posted on 08/29/2019 10:45:13 AM PDT by Salman (The Democrat agenda in one word -- revenge.)
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