Rebecca Todd Peters is on a mission to get churches to talk about abortion
Spend a few minutes reading this if you’d like to get a good glimpse of the face of evil.
One of the quotes that stuck out the most from the article: “Abortion is a moral good. Abortion is an act of love. Abortion is an act of grace,” and finally: “Abortion is a blessing.”
It doesn’t seem as if she has read Exodus 21: 22-25, which seems particularly relevant here:
22If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
“CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (RNS) — The Rev. Rebecca Todd Peters’ neon pink stole bearing the Planned Parenthood logo announced her subject even before she ascended to the lectern.
When she started preaching, she got right to the point. “Abortion makes many people profoundly uncomfortable,” she told a crowd of 200 at the Community Church of Chapel Hill, a Unitarian Universalist congregation “ — at dinner parties, in polite conversation, with friends and family and, too often, in church.”
Her sermon, like countless others she has given recently, aimed to challenge the perception that people of faith are against abortion and to tell the stories of women who have had them.
An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a professor of religious studies at Elon University, where she heads the Abortion and Religion project, Peters is best known as one of the country’s leading ethicists on abortion rights.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court announced in May 2021 that it would hear Dobbs v. Jackson, the case that would eventually overturn Roe v. Wade, Peters has given more than 55 sermons and lectures on abortion across the country. Lately, she’s been especially in demand in North Carolina, after a new law banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy and restricting abortion-related medications went into effect earlier this month.
Until last year, abortions were legal in North Carolina until fetal viability, generally between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy. Last August, a judge ruled that abortion was no longer legal after 20 weeks.
The new 12-week ban, which passed with lightning speed by North Carolina’s Republican-dominated legislature, stunned many state residents, and especially members of the religious left. “
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GUNS N GEAR
The stuff that spews out of Chapel Hill comes straight from the pit of hell. I do agree with her somewhat in that looking at some of these broads it may have been better had they been aborted.
Yeah, Chapel Hell spews out a ton of absolute garbage. I am still very surprised that Cooper signed the 12 week abortion bill, I would have expected a veto on that.
I just love when they argue the right to choose……they had that choice when they spread their legs. After the way COVID/Opioid epidemic was handled I don’t know how anyone could argue medical necessity with a straight face.
“The Rev. Rebecca Todd Peters’ neon pink stole bearing the Planned Parenthood logo…” “Community Church of Chapel Hill, a Unitarian Universalist congregation…” And here is where I rage-vomited onto my monitor.
The original Unitarian Church, around the turn of the 19 century, was instrumental in introducing socialist and “interpretation” into mainstream Christian teaching and theology Christian. The Union Theological Seminary sent many a young minister into the world with marxist and utilitarian ideas that dilute, suborn or ignore the Truth of the Gospels, essentially a bent toward social activist proto communist ideology.
I may not have the exact terminology (it has been awhile since I studied this subject) but the historical record is readily available. This is one of the epicenters of the secular rot seeping into protestant denominations. Many a schism has been the result, with several traditional congregations separating from the “modern church,” foundational Presbyterians, Methodists and trad. Catholics among them. World wide Anglican affiliations stoutly denounce the Episcopal (US var.) Church for it’s social, political and heretical dogma.
On a less erudite note, someone should knock some of that demon’s tombstone teeth… well, y’know.
I’m seeing a lot of jewish faces in that crowd.