By Sarah Zagorski, LifeNews.com.
In the book, Aborting Aristotle: Examining Fatal Fallacies in the Abortion, pro-life author Dave Sterrett said he met a Presbyterian minister who believed a baby isn’t truly a person until he or she has been loved.
This is a fascinating view on personhood, especially coming from a Christian religious leader who is supposed to give the most weight to what God says about the matter. However, the minister’s comments are not all that surprising considering the official stance of the Presbyterian Church (USA) on abortion, which is that “the considered decision of a woman to terminate a pregnancy [by abortion] can be a morally acceptable, though certainly not the only or required, decision.”
According to the Presbyterian Mission Agency, the church believes the following about abortion: “When an individual woman faces the decision whether to terminate a pregnancy, the issue is intensely personal, and may manifest itself in ways that do not reflect public rhetoric, or do not fit neatly into medical, legal, or policy guidelines. Humans are empowered by the spirit prayerfully to make significant moral choices, including the choice to continue or end a pregnancy. Human choices should not be made in a moral vacuum, but must be based on Scripture, faith, and Christian ethics. For any choice, we are accountable to God; however, even when we err, God offers to forgive us.”
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Our Heavenly Father loves all unborn babies. Therefore, all unborn babies are persons, and abortion is never justified except if absolutely necessary to save the mother’s life.
Again … the original article needs a disclaimer that the PCUSA only speaks for itself, not for the other Split P’s.
The hubris of the PCUSA by appropriating the word Presbyterian as it is the only body in the US with the right to use it (witness the name “Presbyterian Mission Agency”), keeps members of the other Split P’s saying “we’re not THOSE presbyterians”.
Psalms 139: 14-16 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
@ Uninformed – that’s because the splits are really fundamentalist baptist basically, with fake “sessions” consisting of mostly male powerbrokers who stir up a “congregational family vote” when they want to get something justified…