From a sermon called “Faithful Witnesses for Choice” by the Reverend Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragdale delivered to the National Abortion Federation at their annual meeting in 1997:
“We are pro-choice because we are for women, and men, and children, and families who struggle to be faithful to God’s will for them in the face of the very real complexities of their lives. We are pro-choice not because we know that the decisions they make will always be the right ones, but that we understand that that is something that we never can know. So we leave the outcome in God’s hands, and in the meantime, we provide the women who turn to us with every resource at our disposal to help them make and act on the difficult choices they face. Women making these decisions need to know that they have our respect, that we honor and celebrate them for making and acting on and living with complicated ethical decisions. They need to know that we are prayerfully pro-choice.”
