Churches Protest & Harass Abortion Clinic Patients? Reverse the Tables at Their Churches.

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45. The United Methodist Church does not categorically oppose abortion.

Neither do many other religions. It is really not a good idea to pick any church at random and begin a protest about abortion. The anti-abortion religions make a lot of noise, but they are not necessarily the majority of religions. A lot of "Catholics" use birth control and don't agree with the Catholic Church's stance on reproductive issues.

Here is a quick review of the various established churches' stances on abortion.

http://www.pewforum.org/2013/01/16/religious-groups-official-positions-on-abortion/

Many of the well established denominations support reproductive choice.

Here are a couple of examples.

We recognize tragic conflicts of life with life that may justify abortion, and in such cases we support the legal option of abortion under proper medical procedures by certified medical providers. We support parental, guardian, or other responsible adult notification and consent before abortions can be performed on girls who have not yet reached the age of legal adulthood. We cannot affirm abortion as an acceptable means of birth control, and we unconditionally reject it as a means of gender selection or eugenics (see Resolution 3184).

We oppose the use of late-term abortion known as dilation and extraction (partial-birth abortion) and call for the end of this practice except when the physical life of the mother is in danger and no other medical procedure is available, or in the case of severe fetal anomalies incompatible with life. This procedure shall be performed only by certified medical providers. Before providing their services, abortion providers should be required to offer women the option of anesthesia.

More.

http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=5066287&content_id={8A1C7083-AD34-47B6-B3FA-E36418DE5790}&notoc=1

Unitarians

WHEREAS, the issue of abortion is morally complex, abortion must remain a legal option; and

WHEREAS, attempts are now being made to restrict access to birth control and abortion by overriding individual decisions of conscience, and attacks in legislatures, courts, and the streets often result in depriving poor women of their right to medical care; and such legislation is an infringement of the principle of separation of church and state in that it tries to enact private morality into public law; and

WHEREAS, there is a movement to re-criminalize abortion both for women and their health-care providers which could bring back dangerous alternatives to clinically safe abortions;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1987 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association reaffirms its historic position, supporting the right to choose contraception and abortion as legitimate aspects of the right to privacy; and

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http://www.uua.org/statements/statements/14499.shtml