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I was quoting from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice's website to show the absurdity of the "religious" rationale for the horror of abortion. Many of my friends who are still in the Episcopal Church were riled up and fuming over Gene Robinson, but they somehow can't get too worked up over abortion.

I don't know how true this is, but I read around the blogosphere that the following is being proposed for the new prayerbook:

“Heavenly Father, you are the Giver of Life and you share with us the care of the life that is given. Into your hands we commit in trust the developing life that we have cut short. Look in kindly judgment on the decision we have made and assure us in all our uncertainty that your love for us can never change. Amen”

Look in kindly judgment on the decision we have made

I find myself wondering if these, uh, people (I use the term with some hesitation) have ever bothered to crack open the Old Testament and understand it. God has already rendered his opinion of child sacrifice. When the Kingdom of Israel practiced by offering up their children to Molech, he sent the Assyrians to utterly annihilate them as a people.

That's his "kindly judgement" on that particular "decision".

Into your hands we commit in trust the developing life that we have cut short.

Thou shalt not cut short a life.

Look in kindly judgment on the decision we have made and assure us in all our uncertainty that your love for us can never change.

Otherwise our conscience might bother us. "Go, and sin all you want."