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Anglican reaction to Roe v. Wade decision

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None of it is surprising.

ACNA’s Foley Beach supports the supreme court ruling:

While this decision doesn’t end abortion in the U.S., it will lead to fewer children being killed through abortion. We thank God for this limited victory, and the Anglican Church in North America recommits itself to serving mothers so they can embrace motherhood and welcome their children. We also continue to point the way to God’s healing and forgiveness for all who suffer physically and emotionally from their abortion experiences.

TEC’s Michael Currey does not:

While I, like many, anticipated this decision, I am deeply grieved by it. I have been ordained more than 40 years, and I have served as a pastor in poor communities; I have witnessed firsthand the negative impact this decision will have.

Most Canadian bishops have yet to react publicly, but I suspect we all know what they are thinking.

Here are a few that have. Coming in first we have the Bishop of BC, Anna Greenwood-Lee, tweeting her support for Michael Curry’s LibSpeak:

Coming in a close second, we have the ex-bishop of Edmonton, Jane Alexander who thinks that treating an unborn baby as less than human is necessary for women to be treated as fully human:

On the optimistic side of things, church leaders of this calibre are doing their very best to hasten the demise of their own organisation: on the one hand they favour sterile homoerotic ménages and, on the other, the killing of the unborn offspring of the few heterosexual couples still coming to sleep in their pews. They will be gone in a generation.

Anglican reactions to impending supreme court abortion ruling

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The Episcopal Church has issued the following statement:

Episcopal Church statement on reports concerning Supreme Court case pertaining to abortion

May 3, 2022

Office of Government Relations

Since 1967, The Episcopal Church has maintained its “unequivocal opposition to any legislation on the part of the national or state governments which would abridge or deny the right of individuals to reach informed decisions [about the termination of pregnancy] and to act upon them.” In light of the recent report about a pending decision in the Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, The Episcopal Church reaffirms our commitment to “equitable access to women’s health care, including women’s reproductive health care,” which we view as “an integral part of a woman’s struggle to assert her dignity and worth as a human being.” The Office of Government Relations will continue to advocate at the federal level to protect reproductive rights.

We encourage you to read this overview of The Episcopal Church’s positions on abortion and women’s reproductive health.

Put into simple terms, removing the euphemisms and Newspeak, TEC is endorsing the murder of unborn babies. An organisation promoting such a demonically inspired abomination should not be afforded the dignity of being called a Christian Church.

The Anglican Church of Canada hierarchy, being largely populated with spineless poltroons, has remained silent on the issue. Apart, that is, from the intrepid Rev. Michael Coren who cannot resist coming down on the wrong side of an ethical conundrum whenever he has the opportunity.

Read Coren’s claptrap here:

There is nothing Christian about allowing women to die in illegal back street abortions. Nothing Christian about removing the basic right of a woman to control her own body. Nothing Christian about wanting to criminalize female equality.

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But what of scripture itself? The central point is that any ancient text, even one that is central to a religious faith and certainly crucial to my life and beliefs, has to be understood and interpreted in context and with understanding.

So, for example, when opponents of abortion quote Jeremiah — “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations” — they should grasp a few realities. First, this was written around 2,700 years ago. Second, the text is speaking of a single person, “a prophet to the nations” rather than making a sweeping comment about the beginning of life.

Or Psalm 139, “For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” This is poetry and metaphor, a beautiful testimony to God’s love but not a guide to human biology. The very idea is unbiblical.

The New Testament has Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, meeting Mary, mother of Jesus, and “the child leaped in her womb.” Again, a lyrical description of an event that shaped history, but not scientific and not supposed to be. If we’re to take a literalist approach to the Bible we’re in all sorts of trouble. By the way, it sometimes supports abortion, something the Christian right doesn’t like to mention.

Rev. Michael Coren laments possible overturn of Roe v. Wade

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When I was much younger than I am now, bringing up young children, I made the mistake of attending a parenting class. Although I was not a Christian at the time, I still had managed to acquire strong opinions on many things. Abortion was one. It seemed to me then, as it does now, that to abort a foetus was to kill an innocent baby in the early stages of its life. I knew with considerable certainty that it was murder; I didn’t need God to tell me that (although, in retrospect, I presume the certainly did come from him), I just knew.

When the teacher of the course decided she would like to probe the “values” of her students, one of the exercises she asked us to do was to place ourselves on one side of the room if we agreed with abortion and the other if we did not. Of the 30 or so people in the room, my wife and I were the only two people on the anti-abortion side. I was a little startled since I was in a room full of people who supposedly wanted to care for their children, not get rid of them before they arrived. Welcome to Canada, I thought – I was a fairly recent immigrant.

Maybe I imagined it, but the instructor seemed a little chilly towards my wife and I after that.

I’ve grown used to both the Canadian enthusiasm for killing unborn babies and the chill emanating from such enthusiasts when I voice my disagreement.

Even so, surely a church which claims to champion the underdog, to stand for justice, to defend the most vulnerable members of our society, to preach love, love, love would want to defend the unborn. Alas not. The Anglican Church of Canada is dismally silent about the yearly murder 100,000 unborn babies in Canada. It has nothing recent to say about this unregulated industrial (yes, it is an industry) death machine.

And it gets worse. Michael Coren, now Rev Michael Coren, a newly minted ACoC cleric, having shed the last vestiges of common sense that still desperately clung to him, has penned this article lamenting the possible overturn of Roe v. Wade in the US, an outcome which, he says, would be “disastrous”.

God have mercy on us and him:

Taking achievements for granted is one of the greatest errors in the political handbook. Always be on guard, be ever vigilant. Yet activists and elected representatives are constant culprits in this regard, and that partly explains how in the U.S. there is a genuine possibility that abortion rights, women’s reproductive autonomy, could soon be harshly restricted or even curtailed.

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments about abortion around the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. This particular conflict concerns a Mississippi law that bans abortion at 15 weeks. Under the iconic Roe v. Wade and the subsequent Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey cases, this law is unconstitutional. But while we won’t know the Dobbs decision for several months, it seems highly likely that the conservative-dominated court is willing to make a ruling that will reverse Roe.

That would have been impossible until recently, but now six of the nine Supreme Court justices are conservative, three of them appointed by Donald Trump. They’ve already heard a Texas case that bans abortion after six weeks, and they allowed it to stand for three months. If the court does reverse Roe, it would be historic. And disastrous. For half-a-century Roe has guided the U.S. on abortion rights and if that changes, the entire template of the discussion will be transformed. It will unleash and empower the anti-abortion movement, which is large, militant, and extremely well-funded.

And we think we will escape the wrath of God with a vaccine

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And we think we will escape the wrath of God with a vaccine that uses cells grown from an aborted baby’s kidney to test its efficacy (Pfizer and Moderna) or in its production (AstraZeneca. Janssen uses cells grown from a baby’s iris). The following is happening in Canada. Now.
God help us.
From here:
As a sonographer, I had the unfortunate experience of having to assist in a D&E “uterine evacuation” procedure………
Upon my arrival, I was told to place the ultrasound probe on the mother’s pelvis and scan during the entire procedure. Not knowing what was actually happening, I was stunned as I watched the doctor thrust a catheter into the amniotic sac. I watched the fetus dodge the catheter and try to hide in the top (fundus) of her mother’s uterus to get away. (Yes, the pregnancy was far enough along that I could see gender). Then, to my horror, I watched as he inserted a forceps clamp and grabbed her tiny leg. She writhed around in pain trying to break free but there was nowhere for her to go.
Then the doctor pulled hard until her leg ripped away from her body. She recoiled and violently writhed around in pain and curled herself into a tight ball. But it was no use, the clamp grabbed her arm and she struggled to pull away, a little less because she was dying, as he pulled her arm off of her body. (It was hard to see by this time because I had tears rolling down my cheeks). The child again curled herself into a tight ball but again the device grabbed her other leg and it was ripped from her body. By now, her heartbeat had slowed significantly but she was still alive (they didn’t inject anything).
Then the clamp grabbed her last limb and ripped it off. She wiggled and writhed around and then her heart finally stopped beating. That is when I announced that there was no more cardiac activity. The nurse and scrub tech in the room gasped, realizing for the first time that this was happening to a fetus that was still alive

Ecumenism in action

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It’s always encouraging to find church denominations that have something in common.

Anglican priest Rev Katherine Ragsdale, president of the National Abortion Federation tells us: “Abortion providers are some of my personal heroes and modern-day saints” and ” abortion is a blessing”.

And here is a billboard from the Satanic Temple telling us that abortion is one of their religious rituals. Ecumenism at its finest.

And the award for the most idiotic Christian argument for abortion goes to…..

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Rodney Dunklee who tells us that the “soul is mated to the body” at the “first breath after birth” so before then the baby is not a person.

This, apparently, is Scriptural because “Genesis teaches of God’s breath of life being breathed into clay bringing Adam alive thus reinforcing the union of breathing and life.”

This means it is fine to kill a baby, not just in the womb, but after she has been born, so long as she hasn’t taken her first breath. If you are quick off the mark and don’t take an immediate liking to your new daughter, just stick the knife in before she starts inhaling. A beating heart doesn’t matter; brain activity doesn’t matter; movement doesn’t matter; only the breath matters.

And we wonder why the world thinks Christians are gullible halfwits given to crass, obscene superstitions.

From here:

In response to the letter to the editor by Louis Cascarelli (“Please support candidates opposed to abortion Nov. 3,” The Daily News, Sept. 30), who was wondering why more clergy don’t preach against abortion: It may be those who’ve studied the Bible realize the pro-life position that all abortion is sin is more conservative than some Scriptures.

I believe Psalm 139:13-15 — “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb; 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well; 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth” — is referring to one’s soul being created out of a body in the depths of the Earth.

Being knit together is a process that concludes with the soul being mated to the body and it happens with a slap on the bottom and first breath after birth. Similarly, I and many others, believe your soul leaves after your lungs settle in the last exhale of death.

Genesis teaches of God’s breath of life being breathed into clay bringing Adam alive thus reinforcing the union of breathing and life.

Just as Christians believe one moment you’re a sinner but can be instantly born again as a child of God, the Bible is filled with miraculous transformations similar to a soul binding with the flesh with one’s first breath.

Yes, a woman’s egg is alive when it begins to grow. It’s internal tissue as one’s appendix is and what happens to it should be her choice.

Once the baby starts breathing and is mated with its eternal soul, the important part to God that was created in a secret place outside the woman’s body, our current laws protect it.

BLM

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Babies’ Lives Matter

Around 100,000 babies are murdered in the womb each year in Canada.

Since 1988, Canada has had no law protecting the unborn. None. That means a baby can be killed at any time from the moment of conception to the moment of birth.

To my knowledge, no bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada has voiced any objection to this.

Silence is complicity.

Anglican Church of Canada bishops, no matter how much hand-wringing you do over racism, you still have blood on your hands.

All of you:

Anne Germond,
Annie Ittoshat,
Barbara Andrews,
David Edwards,
David Irving,
David Parsons,
Donald Phillips,
Fraser Lawton,
Geoff Peddle,
Greg Kerr-Wilson,
Jane Alexander,
Jenny Andison,
John Chapman,
John Organ,
John Privett,
John Watton,
Joseph Royal,
Kevin Robertson,
Larry Robertson,
Linda Nicholls,
Logan McMenamie,
Lucy Netser,
Lydia Mamakwa,
Mary Irwin-Gibson,
Melissa Skelton,
Michael Hawkins,
Michael Oulton,
Nigel Shaw,
Riscylla Shaw,
Robert Hardwick,
Ron Cutler,
Susan Bell,
Todd Townshend,
Tom Corston,
William Cliff,

Complaint leads to removal of pro-life ad from Guelph Transit buses

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This is one of the advertisements:

The article below describes the advertisements as “controversial”, in itself a sad indictment on a society that sees controversy in protecting the unborn and none in inviting drag queens into children’s libraries to spread “diversity” to infants.

Read it all here:

A controversial anti-abortion advertisement that had been running on Guelph Transit buses has been removed by the City of Guelph after a complaint was made by a member of the public.

Lifelong Guelphite Fiona Douglas recalls seeing anti-abortion advertising by Guelph & Area Right to Life on Guelph Transit buses since she was a child. Now 27, Douglas has been campaigning for the past few years to have the advertisements removed from public property.

The nub of the problem is the phenomenon that was unheard of before 2010: triggering. The notion is that if a person is exposed to an idea which runs contrary to his conditioning, it might upset – trigger – him. And obviously, since my generation’s children seem to have inadvertently bred a crop of fragile snowflakes, we can’t have that.

“It’s triggering for me as someone who has never had an abortion. It upsets me that people are able to make other people question what is right for them and their health care through the lens of human rights,” said Douglas.

Before anyone jumps to the conclusion that the woman filing the complaint is against free speech, she hastens to assure us that she is all for it. As long as it doesn’t upset anyone:

Douglas said she believes strongly in freedom of speech and acknowledges Right to Life has every right to advertise, but doesn’t want to see messages that are misleading or could be upsetting to some people.

When is the Anglican church, which loves social action so much it has swapped saving souls for banning pipelines, going to do something socially positive and support groups like the Guelph & Area Right to Life?

Theatres showing Unplanned receive death threats

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Unplanned is a pro-life film which has not yet been shown in Canada because Canadians don’t wish to be reminded that abortion kills babies and Canadian law does nothing to protect them. Nor, in spite of all their crowing about caring about society’s most vulnerable, do most mainline churches.

Those who claim to be “pro-choice” are actually not when it comes to choosing to see Unplanned. Two Canadian film theatres have received death threats because they are going to show the film. That must mean it is worth seeing.

From here:

Police are investigating death threats sent to two Canadian independent theatre owners because they are screening the pro-life movie Unplanned on July 12, LifeSiteNews has learned.

Unplanned dramatizes Abby Johnson’s conversion from Planned Parenthood abortion facility manager to pro-life advocate and was written, produced and directed by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman.

As a safety measure, the movie’s producers have now removed from their website the comprehensive July 12 listing of 46 Canadian theatres — independents, Cineplex and Landmark locations — that will be showing Unplanned, Konzelman told LifeSiteNews.

They did so at the request of B.J. McKelvie, pastor and president of Fredericton-based Cinedicon, the Canadian distributor of the film.

McKelvie confirmed to LifeSiteNews that two Canadian independent cinema owners contacted police after receiving death threats they perceived as credible, and that they are “fearful for their families.”

Another Canadian independent theatre owner “has been harrassed to the extreme.”

One of the two owners who contacted the police has cancelled the Unplanned screening, but all the rest “are holding their ground,” McKelvie said.

Aborting Canadians

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Canada has had no law limiting abortion since 1988, when the existing abortion law was ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court of Canada. Babies are killed up to and during birth and the Anglican Church of Canada, for all its posturing on social justice, is oddly silent on the issue. ACNA and ANiC, on the other hand, are explicitly pro-life.

This is why you should care: