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Telling People God’s Okay With Abortion Is A New Low For Abortion Supporters
Federalist ^ | August 29, 2018 | Paula Rinehart

Posted on 08/29/2018 8:22:35 AM PDT by Morgana

The old argument that defends abortion now has a new twist. This time, it’s wearing a clerical collar. It’s not enough these days to champion abortion by mere reason. Trying to convince women that ending a pregnancy is actually a shame-free “positive good” is starting to ring hollow as well.

So now the latest wave in promoting abortion comes from a most unlikely source. A social ethics professor of religious studies at Elon University makes her case for declaring that abortion can actually be considered Christian.

Rebecca Todd Peters writes in her new book, “Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice,” that we should trust women to decide what is best for them in matters of childbearing. She claims that if Christians “truly value women and healthy families,’ they must accept that not wanting a baby “is an imminently appropriate reason to end a pregnancy.” Letting the woman herself be the final arbiter is “reproductive justice.”

Peters is an ordained Presbyterian minister (PCUSA) who holds a MDiv and a PhD from Union Theological Seminary in New York. What’s unique here is not her argument, which has been around a long time, but her attempts to wring actual Christian virtue out of the traumatic act of ending life in the womb.

Perhaps progressives are getting desperate. You have to wonder if the public exposure of Planned Parenthood’s practice of disassembling baby parts in abortion clinics has taken such a toll that they must now distort church history and Judeo-Christian apologetics to bolster a weakened defense. Using Christianity to shred the last little pieces of a conscience rooted in faith is, shall we say, rather unprecedented. Rebecca Todd Peters Hijacks Plenty of Words

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TOPICS: Current Events; Mainline Protestant; Moral Issues; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: abortion; pcusa; peters; presbyterian; progressive; prolife; rebeccatoddpeters; reproductivejustice
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Rebecca Todd Peters at it again. Yes I've posted about her, here before!
1 posted on 08/29/2018 8:22:35 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

If you’re okay with murder, lying is not beneath you.


2 posted on 08/29/2018 8:38:47 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Democratic socialism is when the majority of people vote to steal your property.)
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To: Morgana
... if Christians “truly value women and healthy families,’ they must accept that not wanting a baby “is an imminently appropriate reason to end a pregnancy.” Letting the woman herself be the final arbiter is “reproductive justice.” I have never even considered striking a woman. This cretin may be the first - I would slap the snot outta' that witch, and laugh all the way to the courthouse. I don't plan any attacks, I'm a peaceful man. OTOH, if she came knockin' to solicit for PP, I may snap! HA!
3 posted on 08/29/2018 8:40:17 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Blood of Tyrants wrote:

If you’re okay with murder, lying is not beneath you.

Good point, excellent reply.


4 posted on 08/29/2018 8:41:37 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.)
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To: Morgana
[Rebecca] Peters is an ordained Presbyterian minister (PCUSA)

Well ... there's your problem, right there.

5 posted on 08/29/2018 8:47:00 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: heterosupremacist
not wanting a baby “is an imminently appropriate reason to end a pregnancy.”

No. It's an "imminently (sic) appropriate" reason to keep your panties on ...

6 posted on 08/29/2018 8:49:55 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Peters is an ordained Presbyterian minister (PCUSA) who holds a MDiv and a PhD from Union Theological Seminary in New York.

Union Theo: Gay Times Central, at least from the 60s.

7 posted on 08/29/2018 8:54:12 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: Morgana
She commends women for the “moral courage” of choosing abortion when they aren’t prepared to parent. (Missing in the conversation is what justice might look like for the child in the womb).

Where's the "moral courage" to say NO to sexual intercourse when she wasn't prepared to "parent"?

8 posted on 08/29/2018 8:56:09 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: Morgana

They have preached “false” doctrine for so long that they now believe it. You see fake news everywhere in the media, so why not false doctrine by our religious leaders and denominations.

Do not be deceived by these people. Read the Word of God and believe in it. I think you will find God does not condone the murder of innocent babies except in the defense of the mother’s life. And that choice being the mothers.

Not to reopen the issue, but I urge everyone to just read and study the bible for guidance on this matter. As with all decisions in life, be informed before you have to choose. I speak from experience.


9 posted on 08/29/2018 9:01:37 AM PDT by Texicanus (GOD Bless Texas and the USA)
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To: Morgana

The often misused and overused phrase “a special place in hell”, seems entirely appropriate for this creature.


10 posted on 08/29/2018 9:03:24 AM PDT by robel
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To: Morgana

Baby killers think God says, “Go ahead, I made the child, but you can kill it. I’m good with that.”

Liberals are stupid like that.


11 posted on 08/29/2018 9:04:41 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!)
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To: Morgana
The following is an account as told to Washington Week by Lurleen Stackhouse, who approached President and Mrs. Clinton at the pre-inaugural prayer service held at the AMEC church in Washington D.C., on Inauguration Day:

"When the service concluded we were asked to stay seated until the President and Mrs. Clinton departed for the White House. However, as they walked down the aisle I stood and reached out for Mr. Clinton. `Mr. Clinton, America must stop killing babies.` He looked at me with a blank stare on his face. I repeated this statement to him.

"Hillary (not hearing my comment) then came to give me a hug and I said (in a voice only audible to her), `Hillary, it's against God's law to kill babies.` She stepped back, shaking and trembling, and then grabbed my arm. Her countenence transformed from a pleasant demeanor to the appearance of being possessed. Her eyes were enraged as she replied, `It is God's law to kill babies.`

"I drew back in shock at this blatant and revealing statement. I fully expected her to say, `It is God's law for women to have a choice,` or other pro-death rhetoric. But no, she was bold and blatant. I would not have believed it if I had not heard it with my own ears. I walked out with General Colin Powell. As the Clintons got into their limousine I approached the car. Through the glass I continued to plead with Mr. Clinton to stop killing babies. Again he had a troubled stare.

"But the killing will continue so long as there is no understanding among church people about holiness. It will continue song long as Hillary Clinton and company have their feminist agenda enforced. It will continue as long as Christains continue to be apathetic and non-resistant. It will continue until God released his hand of judgement upon our nation. But in the end it must stop. Until it does, the voice of unborn babies will cry out for justice."

(I have this on video tape from C-SPAN.)

12 posted on 08/29/2018 9:06:25 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Morgana

The truly sad thing is some church leadership is leaning toward this.

Just as it seems to me there are new beacons out there in the world, lighting the way for conservatives...people who should not be are still caving to the darkness of the left.

In my wildest dreams I cannot imagine any church condoning abortion, but we are seeing it.


13 posted on 08/29/2018 9:10:15 AM PDT by Tammy8
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To: Morgana

The 10 Commandments were merely suggestions,too.


14 posted on 08/29/2018 9:14:21 AM PDT by Leep
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To: NorthMountain
“is an imminently appropriate reason to end a pregnancy.”. Hmmm. "End your pregnancy" = cold blooded murder! Infanticide. Or, if you get there quickly enough, it will technically be referred to as "Feticide". By any other name, 'Womyn's HealthCare'(per their own twisted definition) is the reproductive RIGHT {per USSC} to slaughter their offspring at any stage of gestation, and their RIGHT to have taxpayers pick up the bill...
15 posted on 08/29/2018 9:25:15 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.)
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To: Morgana

1Tim 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.


16 posted on 08/29/2018 9:29:53 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (If your church believes in evolution it is not a Christian church.)
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To: Morgana

The Greeks and Romans would frequently leave defective and unwanted babies to die, and would deride the Jews for their choices.

The Bible OTOH, says, “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live....” —Deut 30:19

‘Seems pretty clear.


17 posted on 08/29/2018 9:42:26 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Morgana

God created humans and therefore human nature. Abortion is contrary to human nature. End of discussion.


18 posted on 08/29/2018 9:58:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: Morgana

One of the puzzles about Scripture, to me, is what is the unforgiveable sin, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. I think I am seeing it in action here.


19 posted on 08/29/2018 10:08:08 AM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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The sin God says He won’t forgive, taking the name of the Lord in vain, is doing something self serving while claiming to speak for or representing God. That seems to apply to her.


20 posted on 08/29/2018 10:23:38 AM PDT by robel
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