{"id":6524,"date":"2009-12-03T13:32:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6524"},"modified":"2009-12-03T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T18:32:09","slug":"abortion-is-a-god-given-right-according-to-one-baptist-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/abortion-is-a-god-given-right-according-to-one-baptist-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion is a \u201cGod given right\u201d according to one Baptist Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/57957\" target=\"_blank\">For the mother<\/a>, of course; Carlton Veazey, a Baptist minister, doesn\u2019t seem to think unborn babies have a God-given right not to be aborted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rev. Carlton Veazy, president and CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, told a small crowd of pro-abortion protesters that women have a \u201cGod-given right\u201d to abortion and that opposition from pro-life congressmen and religious leaders would never take it away.<\/p>\n<p>Veazy, closing speaker at a \u201cStop Stupak\u201d rally on Capitol Hill staged by major pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood, NARAL-Pro Choice, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) told the crowd that not only did they have a constitutional right to abortion, but that they had a God-given one as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t let anybody tell you that religious people don\u2019t support choice,\u201d Veazy said at the gathering in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. \u201cYou not only have a constitutional right for abortion, but you have a God-given right.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a disconnection between Veazey\u2019s pro-abortion view and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inmotionmagazine.com\/veazey3.html\" target=\"_blank\">love he has for his children and grandchildren<\/a> that borders on mental derangement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As for me, this work is an extension of the constantly maturing love I have for my children, and now my grandchildren and the children of the village. Every day I feel blessed that I am a father to all my children, that I&#8217;m still on this journey, and that I am faithfully, prayerfully, pro-choice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am pro-choice too: I&#8217;m pro giving the unborn the chance to choose life without the threat of being dismembered or burned to death in utero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the mother, of course; Carlton Veazey, a Baptist minister, doesn\u2019t seem to think unborn babies have a God-given right not to be aborted: Rev. Carlton Veazy, president and CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, told a small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/abortion-is-a-god-given-right-according-to-one-baptist-minister\/\">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":[4,38],"tags":[2022,2052],"class_list":["post-6524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-barmy-baptists","tag-abortion","tag-barmy-baptists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524","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=6524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}