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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts) Tue Feb 5, 2019, 06:20 PM Feb 2019

How interfaith values support New York's Reproductive Health Act

From the article:

New York state just enacted the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), which updates and strengthens the right to choose an abortion in the state. High-profile criticism of the law has come principally from the Catholic Church, including calls for the state’s Catholic governor, Andrew Cuomo, to be excommunicated.

Yet the law reflects the values shared by many pro-choice clergy and laypeople committed to Protestant, Jewish and Catholic beliefs.
At the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), the largest national interfaith, abortion rights organization, we approach the highly personal reproductive decision-making process guided first and foremost by compassion. We acknowledge the complex, challenging and widely varying circumstances each woman confronts and the impact of these choices on her family.

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How interfaith values support New York's Reproductive Health Act (Original Post) guillaumeb Feb 2019 OP

Meanwhile the Catholic Church is on the other, anti- Choice side. Bretton Garcia Feb 2019 #1

Clearly Catholics are a monolithic bloc. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #2

Clearly the Church leadership is rather monolythic and authoritarian Bretton Garcia Feb 2019 #3

The leadership is often leading in name only. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #4

And as more and more abandon traditional religious dogmas Bretton Garcia Feb 2019 #5

One possibility. eom guillaumeb Feb 2019 #6

Thank you for your moderate response. Bretton Garcia Feb 2019 #7

And you for your own. eom guillaumeb Feb 2019 #8

Bretton Garcia

(970 posts)

1. Meanwhile the Catholic Church is on the other, anti- Choice side.

Reply to guillaumeb (Original post)

Tue Feb 5, 2019, 06:26 PM

Feb 2019

Suggesting it's about a wash, at best, when it comes to religious support for liberalism.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

2. Clearly Catholics are a monolithic bloc.

Reply to Bretton Garcia (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 5, 2019, 06:29 PM

Feb 2019

Yet the law reflects the values shared by many pro-choice clergy and laypeople committed to Protestant, Jewish and Catholic beliefs.

And:

By contrast, 74% of religiously unaffiliated Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, as do two-thirds of white mainline Protestants (67%).
Catholics are somewhat more divided; 51% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases and 42% say it should be illegal.

http://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion/

Bretton Garcia

(970 posts)

3. Clearly the Church leadership is rather monolythic and authoritarian

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 5, 2019, 06:35 PM

Feb 2019

But 50% of everyday Catholics often have the good sense to ignore their religious leaders.

Fortunately they often ignore their own religion.

If only more did the same.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

4. The leadership is often leading in name only.

Reply to Bretton Garcia (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 5, 2019, 06:37 PM

Feb 2019

And this article shows how theists are often deciding for themselves without rejecting what they see as the essentials of their respective faith traditions.

Bretton Garcia

(970 posts)

5. And as more and more abandon traditional religious dogmas

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 5, 2019, 06:51 PM

Feb 2019

.. and profit from it? It will occur to more and more that maybe chucking the whole mess, all of it, would be an advantage.

Which is precisely the process many went through, to become atheists.