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As a Uniting church minister I think abortion can be a morally good choice(BARF)
Guardian ^ | AUG 11, 2019 | Margaret Mayman says she's a preacher

Posted on 08/12/2019 10:28:53 AM PDT by Morgana

People of faith have as much, but no more, right as other people to engage in public deliberation on matters of law or ethics. As a Uniting church minister and teacher of ethics, I support the move from criminalisation to reproductive justice because it separates divisive questions of moral justification (for or against) from the law that applies to all citizens whatever their religious or ethical beliefs.

The ethical debates are undoubtedly divisive. Philosophers, religious leaders, lawyers, bioethicists, and feminist theorists debate the status of the foetus vis-a-vis a woman’s right to bodily integrity and self-determination. Meanwhile, moral decision-making is lived out in the real lives of women who must determine whether or not to continue an unplanned pregnancy.

Women draw on the resources of their personal values including religious beliefs, scientific and medical knowledge, and their moral wisdom. They weigh up sometimes conflicting values in the context of complex lives, giving consideration to their emotional, physical and financial capacity to parent a child; the stability and safety of their relationship with the father; their responsibility to the children they already have; risks to their physical or mental health; and the health of the foetus. While the language of rights is pivotal in the legal debate, the language of care and responsibility, toward other people and themselves, features prominently in women’s moral discernment. The Uniting church acknowledges that its members have diverse views on abortion but holds that it is unjust to criminalise women or doctors for the act of abortion. It advocates a response based on compassion and sensitivity to the complex realities of human life. I contend that recognising the moral agency of women, the capacity of women to make good decisions about whether or not to continue a pregnancy, is crucial for human flourishing, which should be...

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KEYWORDS: abortion; christian; prolife
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BLAH BLAH BLAH....

There is more from this so called "Preacher" go read it

1 posted on 08/12/2019 10:28:53 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana
Women draw on the resources of their personal values including religious beliefs, scientific and medical knowledge, and their moral wisdom. They weigh up sometimes conflicting values in the context of complex lives, giving consideration to their emotional, physical and financial capacity to parent a child; the stability and safety of their relationship with the father; their responsibility to the children they already have; risks to their physical or mental health; and the health of the foetus.

When you put Scripture on the same level as the rest of your life you will make bad decisions.

2 posted on 08/12/2019 10:31:07 AM PDT by Gamecock (In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
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To: Morgana

Does she mean Unitarian?


3 posted on 08/12/2019 10:31:14 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Morgana

Murder is defined as the preplanned killing of a human being.


4 posted on 08/12/2019 10:31:29 AM PDT by exnavy (american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
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To: Morgana

Uniting church of Satan


5 posted on 08/12/2019 10:33:49 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Morgana

AS a Uniting Church minister, he is going to Hell.


6 posted on 08/12/2019 10:33:49 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Methodists and Presbyterians united in Australia.


7 posted on 08/12/2019 10:34:41 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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There is NO "good" arising from the intentional killing of innocents.

These babies are NOT "collateral damage" from a broader war with evil.

8 posted on 08/12/2019 10:35:00 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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As a minister you are a fraud. You are preaching nothing but feminazi crap.


9 posted on 08/12/2019 10:36:22 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

“Does she mean Unitarian?”

Have no idea. Posted this here in the hopes one of you all would know.


10 posted on 08/12/2019 10:37:12 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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See #7.


11 posted on 08/12/2019 10:38:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Thanks. Wondered what that meant.


12 posted on 08/12/2019 10:38:55 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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Had to look it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniting_Church_in_Australia

The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) was established on 22 June 1977 when most congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, about two thirds of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and almost all the churches of the Congregational Union of Australia came together under the Basis of Union.

13 posted on 08/12/2019 10:45:40 AM PDT by Salman (The Democrat agenda in one word -- revenge.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have heard of the Unitarians and the Unity Church, both of which are so liberal that it’s doubtful they can really be called Christian. This “Uniting” church sounds like more of the same. I bet they “unite” groups of people by making their doctrines dull as dishwater.


14 posted on 08/12/2019 10:52:18 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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That's man, baby!!

What do you get when you cross a lesbian with Waldo?

15 posted on 08/12/2019 10:52:54 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Berosus
unitarian = 1

trinity = 3

not Christian

16 posted on 08/12/2019 10:55:14 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: Morgana

Since when is child murder ever a morally good choice?
What Bizarro Hitler World is this freak from?


17 posted on 08/12/2019 10:55:29 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

Murder of pure innocents for convenience. For convenience.

Even the Nazi’s will be able to point fingers at these people.


18 posted on 08/12/2019 10:57:54 AM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (The Eloi unexpectedly protected the Morlocks from rogue Eloi as they themselves prepared to be eaten)
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To: stinkerpot65

Uniting is a particular strain of left wing apostasy in Australia. The logo in the lower corner looks like the state broadcaster ABC so its all among friends there.


19 posted on 08/12/2019 10:58:47 AM PDT by xp38
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To: stinkerpot65

poor waldo!


20 posted on 08/12/2019 11:16:44 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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