I personally am very proud of my adulthood long, since ordination, involvement in the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights, formerly the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights.
The issue is far too involved to be reduced to slogans. Reality is far more complex than simplistic answers. Decisions made must be done by each individual woman and her medical consultant and, if she so chooses and desires, her spiritual counselor, if she has one and/or wants one. Decisions must be made in the reality of each woman's own life. It is not the government's place to intrude on medical decisions made by an individual in her own conscience. There is an old slogan: if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. That is over-stated, to be sure, but the jist of it is correct. I thank God for the Roe vs Wade decision because at last we secured safe, legal, and medically adequete medical treatment for all women. I fear that decision being rolled back by the same people who oppose government funding for the lives, for the good and the WELFARE of people. Abortion is always sad. But it is sometimes the best option of perhaps a series of bad options that a woman is presented with by the realities of life. And as fetus is a fetus. It is not a life. It is a potential life. Roe v Wade has provisions for fetus' that are viable outside the womb. But for a non viable fetus, it remains a fetus, not a person, and sometimes tough decisions have to be made in the light of the realities of many circumstances in the life of each individual. May the right to make that choice continue without encroaching government interference. (the Rev) Vince who has been called a baby killer and physically attacked by so-called RTLers more times that I care to remember; the battle to preserve choice goes on
