{"id":15864,"date":"2012-03-09T11:05:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15864"},"modified":"2012-03-09T11:05:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:05:44","slug":"rev-katherine-ragsdale-would-break-the-law-to-help-a-minor-get-an-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rev-katherine-ragsdale-would-break-the-law-to-help-a-minor-get-an-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Katherine Ragsdale would break the law to help a minor get an abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15865\" title=\"Rev. Katherine Ragsdale\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ragsdale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"166\" \/>Rev. Ragsdale is president and dean of the Episcopal Divinity School and a lesbian. No-one was shocked by that, but she did cause a bit of a stir when she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.org\/national\/national_story.php?id=32962\">called abortion a blessing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The best thing I can think of to say about her is: at least she is consistent. Consistently wicked.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/activist-who-calls-abortion-blessing-tells-congress-she-would-break-law-help-minors\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(CNSNews.com) \u2013 Were Congress to outlaw the transporting of a minor without her parents\u2019 permission across state lines to get an abortion, an abortion- and gay-rights activist testifying on Capitol Hill Thursday she would break the law to continue to help girls end their pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing as a Democratic Party witness at a hearing of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, president and dean of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. recalled the time she took a 15-year-old girl she had never met before to get an abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Ragsdale is president and dean of the Episcopal Divinity School and a lesbian. No-one was shocked by that, but she did cause a bit of a stir when she called abortion a blessing. The best thing I can think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rev-katherine-ragsdale-would-break-the-law-to-help-a-minor-get-an-abortion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2022,1320],"class_list":["post-15864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","tag-abortion","tag-rev-katherine-ragsdale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}