Methodist Minister: I Help Women Get Abortions at Planned Parenthood Because I’m a Christian
Emma Akpan is a faith leader at her North Carolina African Methodist Episcopal Church. She also volunteers for Planned Parenthood. Akpan wrote a column for Bustle this week trying to justify her abortion advocacy with her Christian faith by claiming that she wants to end violence against women. Akpan described herself a minister at her church. Ref. Source 1h
BlackLivesMatter Speaker Bashes Pro-Lifers: “Too Busy Banning Abortion” to Care About Foster Kids
A Christian college group faces backlash this week after one of its conference speakers criticized pro-lifers for not doing enough. Michelle Higgins, an activist with Black Lives Matter and Urbana 15, told about 16,000 people at an InterVarsity Christian Fellowship mission conference that pro-lifers focus too much on banning abortion and not enough on adoption, according to the Christian Post. Higgins addressed the crowd during the Dec. 28 event in St. Louis Missouri, the report states. Ref. Source 3o
Planned Parenthood Abortionist: “I Follow My God-Given Calling” to Kill Babies in Abortions
It has become sadly unoriginal for abortion doctors to use religion as an excuse for killing unborn babies. Mississippi abortion doctor Willie Parker regularly defends his abortion practice with religious references, claiming his abortion career is “a ministry” and the parable of the Good Samaritan inspired him to abort unborn babies. Ref. Source 7i
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Episcopalian Priest Aborted Her Baby So She Could Finish Divinity School
Abortion advocates across the nation are trying to send the U.S. Supreme Court a message: Women need abortions to be successful. This insulting notion has been the underlying theme of dozens of stories pro-abortion women have submitted to the high court ahead of its hearing on a Texas pro-life law, which has been credited with saving more than 10,000 babies’ lives. Ref. Source 5v.
African-American Pastor: Half the Black Population Missing Because 20 Million Black Babies Aborted
Walter Hoye is a pastor on a mission. The African-American evangelist is blasting abortion — saying that some 20 million abortions on black babies is decimating the black population in the United States. Ref. Source 6l.
Methodist Church and United Church of Christ Tell Senate to Oppose Defunding Planned Parenthood. Nearly a dozen religious organizations joined abortion advocacy groups Wednesday to urge U.S. Senators to keep funding the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. Source 4y.
Abortion rights: Why a growing number of religious leaders are fighting to expand access, not restrict it. While many religious leaders remain at the forefront of the anti-abortion movement, others are pushing for greater access to abortion, hoping to change a narrative they say erases the range of viewpoints on abortion rights. Source 4v.