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Christian Alliance for Progress is a new organization which says "The Movement to Reclaim Chrisianity and Reform American Politics:
From their website: "As Christians, we are all called to follow Jesus’ commandment to “Love one another as I have loved you.” (John 15:12) Jesus welcomed women, tax collectors, Pharisees, and lepers at his table. His behavior indicted those who inflicted hurt on others as they piously honored the purity codes of his day. Following Jesus’ example, we declare that using the popular “purity codes” of today, such as sexual orientation, to ostracize and marginalize people is immoral.
Honoring the Sanctity of Childbearing Decisions - Jesus TaughtCompassion, Responsibility, and Equality. Following His Call, We Support Responsible, Compassionate Programs That Are Genuinely Effective in Helping Prevent Unintended Pregnancy, An Outcome No Woman Wants. We Affirm That Each Woman’s Body Belongs to Herself.* No Woman Should Be Forced Either to Bear a Child or to Terminate a Pregnancy.
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No one is “for” abortion. Most abortions are attended by an enormous amount of emotional pain.* But we think the issue is effective prevention of unintended pregnancy, not criminalizing desperate pregnant women or the medical professionals who help them.
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Over and over in the Gospels, Jesus is scathing in his dealings with hypocrites. We believe that Jesus would recognize the inherent hypocrisy in decreasing support for family planning or reducing access to contraception while simultaneously seeking to criminalize abortion.* Such actions deny women and men access to basic help and information on family planning while, at the same time, forcing them to bear children. Abstinence-only education programs pushed by the right are actually associated with an increase in the rate of abortions. Such approaches like these increase the rate of abortions. They are not about protecting life; they are about controlling and punishing desperate women, especially poor women. Criminalizing abortion would also disproportionately target poor women who could not go abroad for a legal abortion.*
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*christianalliance.org/site/c.bnKIIQNtEoG/b.592941/k.CB7C/Home.htm
From their website: "As Christians, we are all called to follow Jesus’ commandment to “Love one another as I have loved you.” (John 15:12) Jesus welcomed women, tax collectors, Pharisees, and lepers at his table. His behavior indicted those who inflicted hurt on others as they piously honored the purity codes of his day. Following Jesus’ example, we declare that using the popular “purity codes” of today, such as sexual orientation, to ostracize and marginalize people is immoral.
Honoring the Sanctity of Childbearing Decisions - Jesus TaughtCompassion, Responsibility, and Equality. Following His Call, We Support Responsible, Compassionate Programs That Are Genuinely Effective in Helping Prevent Unintended Pregnancy, An Outcome No Woman Wants. We Affirm That Each Woman’s Body Belongs to Herself.* No Woman Should Be Forced Either to Bear a Child or to Terminate a Pregnancy.
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No one is “for” abortion. Most abortions are attended by an enormous amount of emotional pain.* But we think the issue is effective prevention of unintended pregnancy, not criminalizing desperate pregnant women or the medical professionals who help them.
*
Over and over in the Gospels, Jesus is scathing in his dealings with hypocrites. We believe that Jesus would recognize the inherent hypocrisy in decreasing support for family planning or reducing access to contraception while simultaneously seeking to criminalize abortion.* Such actions deny women and men access to basic help and information on family planning while, at the same time, forcing them to bear children. Abstinence-only education programs pushed by the right are actually associated with an increase in the rate of abortions. Such approaches like these increase the rate of abortions. They are not about protecting life; they are about controlling and punishing desperate women, especially poor women. Criminalizing abortion would also disproportionately target poor women who could not go abroad for a legal abortion.*
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*christianalliance.org/site/c.bnKIIQNtEoG/b.592941/k.CB7C/Home.htm
