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 Fowlers 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 Womans 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 womens 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 Texass compassionate law, but women are not they are indeed safer as a result.
Wonderful testimonial. Thank you.
Did she actually think God would approve of what of what she did?
Funny how we remember things. I was confirmed Episcopalian at thirteen, in 1960.
Does the priest still recite this?
“We are not so worthy as to pick up the crumbs from this thy table.”
There was great reverence in that church.
This is par for Episcopalians. The moral vacuum, that is.
OMG!!
It is The Church of England
Solo Deo Gloeia!
**She believed her partner would not be a suitable parent**
Then don’t fornicate with him in the first place.
Let’s call her what she is: a baby killing slut - and damn proud of it.
The ironic oxymorons are strong with this one.
We live in a mental hospital. This freak is one sick (and sickening) puppy.
its pretty un-PC but a neighbor has a bumper sticker,
“Jesus is returning soon... and BOY is He PISSED!”
which reminds me of the Biblical teachings about how the Messiah is expected to come (back) when we human critters finally get our moral/ethical act together....
same idea...
right now, not a chance!
They don’t have enough real work to do to occupy their
minds. They’re bored & spread havoc in their wake.
That REPRESENTS what the Episcopal church has become. Glad I left 10 years ago.
I worked once (about 35 years ago!) at an extremely liberal, feminist, liberation-theology type seminary in New England.
At the time, even that place where I worked had a running joke about EDS, this “woman’s” seminary, which was even more leftist than they were. Here it goes:
“The last time the name of Jesus Christ was mentioned at EDS was when a contractor banged his thumb with a hammer.”
May God Bless You.
Your post really ministered to me today. Thank You.
What happened to it then? When did the rot begin, exactly? Can you point to any persons, events, or dates?
How does one accidentally become pregnant? Is sperm airborne?
Snarking aside, The fact that she did not believe she would be supported through her pregnancy and subsequent motherhood while attending divinity school tells us volumes about the Christian ethos at that school.
I’m getting the impression that such people consider their first abortion to be a rite of passage. “Making their bones” so to speak.
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