My Religion Makes Me Pro-abortion
Many of us working to protect access to abortion are doing so <em>because of</em> our faith, not in spite of it.
Think about the relationship between faith and abortion, at least in the United States, and you might conjure up images of prayer circles at the March for Life, or protesters outside clinics, or a priest giving a sermon on the sanctity of life. Religion is often associated with an anti-abortion stance in the American popular imagination—and white Evangelicals have been encouraging that connection . Now those efforts are culminating in the most for abortion access since was decided 49 years ago, and in the Supreme Court’s likely reversal of But many of us working to protect the right to abortion are doing so our religious commitments, not despite them.
