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From pro-choice Reverend Bernice Powell Jackson, from the speech “Seeing the World Through Women’s Eyes” delivered on September 18, 1995 to the annual meeting of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

“We say no to violence – all violence – clinic violence, domestic violence, drive-by violence….We say a woman’s right to make all the choices about her own life and those of her family is a fundamental human right that most Americans believe in.”

From pro-choice Reverend Bernice Powell Jackson, from the speech “Seeing the World Through Women’s Eyes” delivered on September 18, 1995 to the annual meeting of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice:

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Reverend Howard Moody, who created a coalition of pro-choice clergy members who referred women to illegal abortion practitioners before Roe v. Wade. He and his organization were responsible for arranging tens of thousands of abortions. From the speech “The Unfinished Revolution of Pro-Choice: Beyond Sound-Bites and Slogans””

“My understanding of free choice is that the right to choose is a God-given right with which persons are endowed. Without choice, life becomes a meaningless routine and humans become robots. Freedom of choice is what makes us human and responsible. And for women, the preeminent freedom is the choice to control her reproductive process. Any theological or moral arguments that subordinate a woman’s freedom to the imaginary screams of a fetus… will be less than human, no matter how much talk there is about the preciousness of life….there is no law so oppressive and no economic policy so dehumanizing as that which consigns a woman, because she is poor, to involuntary servitude on behalf of an unwanted burden for unnumbered years of her life.”

This speech was given at the annual meeting of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice on September 17, 1997

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Christianity has always emphasized the importance of responsible decision making, and nothing is more important than the decision of when, or whether, to have children …. one thing I know from the Bible is that Jesus was not against women having a choice in continuing a pregnancy…Jesus was for peace on earth, justice on earth, compassion on earth, mercy on earth, and choice on earth.”

Excerpts from the November 22, 2002 letter by Mark Bigelow, Congregational Church of Huntington, United Church of Christ, Centerport, New York, board member of Planned Parenthood of the Hudson-Peconic and a member of the PPFA Clergy Advisory Board, to Bill O’Reilly of Fox News’ “O’Reilly Factor.”

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Rev. Betty Bone Schiess Episcopal Church Priest

“It’s a spiritual rape to deny a woman the right to make a moral and ethical decision, from our tradition, we deeply respect the fact that every member of our faith has the right to make this ethical choice. It’s clearly a violation of the First Amendment, which guarantees men the right to be conscientious objectors during war.”

The Post-Standard, 300,000 Rally for ‘Choice’ leaders claim majority on abortion issue:4-10-1989

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