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THE WEEK, Page 36SOCIETYPro-Choice Pullback
Like other mainstream Protestants, the Presbyterians rethink
abortion
Abortion is no longer a "Catholic issue" in the U.S. -- if
it ever was. Last September the biggest Lutheran body adopted a
moderate pro-life policy. Two months ago, the Southern Baptist
Convention filed its first joint Supreme Court brief alongside
Catholics, urging abolition of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision
that legalized abortion. The United Methodist Church almost
pulled out of a pro-choice lobby it helped establish.
Then, last week, the Presbyterian Church (membership: 2.8
million) expressed second thoughts about the pro-choice stand
it took even before the Supreme Court did. Presbyterian
delegates in Milwaukee said secular law should still allow open
access to the procedure. But in terms of personal morality, they
rejected abortion for economic reasons and endorsed it only for
a grave threat to a mother's physical or mental health, severe
physical or mental defect in a fetus, rape or incest. The new
policy also acknowledges that many Presbyterians see each life
in the womb as "created for a purpose and belonging to God."