How interfaith values support New York's Reproductive Health Act

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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.

To read more:

https://religionnews.com/2019/02/01/how-interfaith-values-support-new-yorks-reproductive-health-act/

[Bretton Garcia]

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

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

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2. Clearly Catholics are a monolithic bloc.

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]

3. Clearly the Church leadership is rather monolythic and authoritarian

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]

4. The leadership is often leading in name only.

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]

5. And as more and more abandon traditional religious dogmas

.. 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.

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6. One possibility. eom

[Bretton Garcia]

7. Thank you for your moderate response.

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8. And you for your own. eom