A cofounder of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, an organization that referred women to illegal abortionists before Roe versus Wade and which helped thousands of women get abortions said the following:
“In my religious tradition, birth was never seen as anything but a gift… To speak of being born as a right is to jar the sensibilities and strain the moral syntax of existence.”
The Rev. Howard Moody in Anna Bonavoglia The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak out about Abortion (New York: Random House, 1991) 192
Moody has also said that he believes abortion destroys a life, but is pro-choice anyway.
