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From LifeSite News:
CANTERBURY, UK, December 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Three teenage girls from an award winning teenage magazine, Oi!, met with Rowan Williams, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, who invited the teen reporters to take “tea and toast” with him at his official residence.
Oi!, that stands for “Outspoken Individual”, is a magazine run by and geared for young people, that hails from Kent, the county in the southeast of England in which the ancient town of Canterbury is located. The young reporters were searching for “outspoken” Kentish people and described their meeting with Dr. Williams as an “overwhelming interview” in which they “had all our preconceptions shattered”.
But despite Dr. Williams’ reputation in Britain as being unusually forthright, he failed to set forth any universally applicable moral principles with regard to the killing of the unborn, or immoral sexual practices, even when one of the girls admitted to being pregnant and thinking of an abortion.
17 year-old Georgie Gothhard who told Dr. Williams, “I am currently 12 weeks pregnant,” asked if there was anything he could suggest to make the decision whether to “keep it” easier. Dr. Williams responded “As a Christian I could never advise anyone to have a termination.”
“Personally I believe a child is a gift from God and you wouldn’t give a gift back - would you? I believe abortions are allowed too late as they are still allowed to be performed at 24 weeks of pregnancy.”
Dr. Williams, however, did not say that there was any universal moral principle at work that absolutely prohibits abortion, but implied that such a prohibition would apply only to Christians and that a possible legitimate exception for legal abortion could be in cases of pregnancy due to rape.
What? Adopting the 15 year old?
P At least in this country that’s illegal. In Austria it’s called dating, heck 14 would still be legal. Not all Christians opposed to abortion nor are all non-Christians for it. 
CANTERBURY, UK, December 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Three teenage girls from an award winning teenage magazine, Oi!, met with Rowan Williams, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, who invited the teen reporters to take “tea and toast” with him at his official residence.
Oi!, that stands for “Outspoken Individual”, is a magazine run by and geared for young people, that hails from Kent, the county in the southeast of England in which the ancient town of Canterbury is located. The young reporters were searching for “outspoken” Kentish people and described their meeting with Dr. Williams as an “overwhelming interview” in which they “had all our preconceptions shattered”.
But despite Dr. Williams’ reputation in Britain as being unusually forthright, he failed to set forth any universally applicable moral principles with regard to the killing of the unborn, or immoral sexual practices, even when one of the girls admitted to being pregnant and thinking of an abortion.
17 year-old Georgie Gothhard who told Dr. Williams, “I am currently 12 weeks pregnant,” asked if there was anything he could suggest to make the decision whether to “keep it” easier. Dr. Williams responded “As a Christian I could never advise anyone to have a termination.”
“Personally I believe a child is a gift from God and you wouldn’t give a gift back - would you? I believe abortions are allowed too late as they are still allowed to be performed at 24 weeks of pregnancy.”
Dr. Williams, however, did not say that there was any universal moral principle at work that absolutely prohibits abortion, but implied that such a prohibition would apply only to Christians and that a possible legitimate exception for legal abortion could be in cases of pregnancy due to rape.
What? Adopting the 15 year old?
P At least in this country that’s illegal. In Austria it’s called dating, heck 14 would still be legal. Not all Christians opposed to abortion nor are all non-Christians for it.