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{PCUSA pastoress} Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters “I can also attest that I felt God’s presence with me as I made the decision to end two pregnancies and I felt no guilt, no shame, no sin”
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Posted on 08/29/2026 9:22:22 PM PDT by Cronos

Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and a professor of religious studies at Elon University, made these statements during a recent sermon at The Community Church of Chapel Hill.

During the sermon, Peters shared her personal experience of having two abortions, stating:

“I can also attest that I felt God’s presence with me as I made the decision to end two pregnancies and I felt no guilt, no shame, no sin”.

She delivered the message while wearing a pink stole emblazoned with the Planned Parenthood logo.

Peters is known for arguing that abortion can, in some circumstances, be understood as a moral good within a Christian ethical framework. In her public talks and writings, she has described abortion as potentially:

“an act of love” “an act of grace” “a blessing”

“Most white Christians are good people who don’t understand themselves to be prejudiced. That’s one of the insidious things about prejudice — it is invisible to those who hold it.” — Rev. Rebecca Todd Peters

In her most recent book, Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice (Beacon, 2018, distributed by Penguin/Random House), Peters outlines how the justification framework shaping current American discussion of abortion is fatally flawed and argues that the framework of Reproductive Justice offers a more ethically robust opportunity for public dialogue.

Trust Women received the 2018 Indies Silver Award for Women’s Studies and the 2018 Nautilus Silver Award for Religion/Spirituality of Western Thought.

She is currently working on the Abortion & Religion project with colleagues Zahra Ayubi, Monique Moultrie, and Michal Raucher. Together the team is interviewing religiously identified women who are having abortions about their abortion experiences.

This film is being shown at The Community Church of Chapel Hill

“Preconceived” is a riveting documentary about the crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) pervading America. Many of these centers are a part of a movement striving to make abortion unthinkable and illegal. The film explores the complex role of deception, finances, faith, and privacy. It follows the stories of two women, whose searches to terminate their unplanned pregnancies misled them to anti-abortion centers


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this wackadoodle must be nuttier than a fruitcake

1 posted on 08/29/2026 9:22:22 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Some guy actually had sex with her ???


2 posted on 08/29/2026 9:28:36 PM PDT by RightWingNut
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To: RightWingNut

Makes one wonder if the sicko didn’t get it done artificially to then abort


3 posted on 08/29/2026 9:31:49 PM PDT by Cronos (Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.)
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To: Cronos

She better hope and pray that Dante’s Inferno isn’t real.

-SB


4 posted on 08/29/2026 9:42:32 PM PDT by Snowybear
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To: Cronos

she “felt” God’s presence ...


5 posted on 08/29/2026 9:44:41 PM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: Cronos

[Preconceived” is a riveting documentary about the crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) pervading America. Many of these centers are a part of a movement striving to make abortion unthinkable and illegal. The film explores the complex role of deception, finances, faith, and privacy. It follows the stories of two women, whose searches to terminate their unplanned pregnancies misled them to anti-abortion centers]

Well, everyone knows how wildly profitable those crisis pregnancy centers can be. Just the other day, I saw an undercover report that caught a “volunteer” bragging about her plans to buy a Porsche with the money she was going to get.


6 posted on 08/29/2026 9:46:35 PM PDT by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest holeYou had so much to offer, why didya offer your soul?)
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To: Cronos

Satan’s minion.


7 posted on 08/29/2026 9:47:04 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: T.B. Yoits

A murderer rationalizing her decision to kill two children. Telling herself “God was okay with it.” is sad and obscene. Saying it to others is sick and evil.


8 posted on 08/29/2026 9:48:14 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

Her god is Molech


9 posted on 08/29/2026 9:51:45 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: Cronos

....”her most recent book, Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice (Beacon, 2018, distributed by Penguin/Random House), Peters outlines how the justification framework shaping current American discussion of abortion is fatally flawed and argues that the framework of Reproductive Justice offers a more ethically robust opportunity for public dialogue.”

Eve loved the dialogue with the Hybrid.... Had sex with the Hybrid,

Then covered herself


10 posted on 08/29/2026 9:53:04 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesied set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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” .. the justification..”

Convinced by the Hybrid, all “justified” then partook, just like before the inflamed violence Hybrids Giants time of Noah


11 posted on 08/29/2026 9:57:50 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesied set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: Cronos

I felt the same way when I killed that hooker.


12 posted on 08/29/2026 9:58:09 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This TagliCanne CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: NonValueAdded
Satan’s minion.

The Roman Catholic church (and Greek Orthodox church) have survived for 2000 years only because women haven't been given the chance to destroy them yet. Men are terribly incompetent, but they muddle along.

13 posted on 08/29/2026 9:58:13 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Cronos

How did THAT get pregnant?

I can suspect the presence she felt was not God.


14 posted on 08/29/2026 10:04:48 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Cronos

Those darn pcUSA freaks ... give a bad name to other Presbyterian denominations.

Our pcA church’s largest budget line item after Missions is the Life Choices clinic steering ladies away FROM abortion.


15 posted on 08/29/2026 10:05:51 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.)
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To: bankwalker

“she ‘felt’ God’s presence ...”

Her god isn’t THE God.


16 posted on 08/29/2026 10:06:47 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.)
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To: doorgunner69

“How did THAT get pregnant?”

Did you see “Rosemary’s Baby”?


17 posted on 08/29/2026 10:11:22 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.)
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To: Cronos

Spot on. No potent man would have sex with that sort of creature from a bad fantasy novel. These subhumans are serial killers who seek pregnancy to murder, legally. These sickos get off on it.

The abortion industry is legalized serial killers.


18 posted on 08/29/2026 10:26:39 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. )
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To: Cronos

“I felt no guilt, no shame, no sin” after two abortions. Add lying to her murder charges, since every women with abortion knows deep down what is going on. Wearing a Roman collar as a non-Catholic is blasphemy. She will probably break a few more Commandments before she dies.


19 posted on 08/29/2026 10:37:45 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

They give bad name to Christianity.

In Muslim circles this will be shown as a Christian priestess celebrating baby killing


20 posted on 08/29/2026 10:43:42 PM PDT by Cronos (Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.)
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