Creating a Sacred Space to Have a Dialogue about Abortion

Creating a Sacred Space to Have a Dialogue about Abortion
Author: Charlotte Jones
Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-05-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Politicians are shaping the abortion debate without listening to the voices of women. The Church is called to be the guiding light in the debate as it asks the question, "How would Jesus respond to the moral issue of abortion?" Creating a Sacred Space to Have a Dialogue About Abortion provides the Church with tools to minister to women who have aborted or are contemplating aborting their unborn child. It creates a sacred space for women to heal by sharing their stories. The book encourages congregational healing as they work together through the moral issue of abortion. It brings hope to women when their lives have been shattered by abortion. The reader is equipped with tools to bring healing in the lives of women who aborted their unborn child. We are reminded God is a God of grace.

Civil Dialogue on Abortion

Civil Dialogue on Abortion
Author: Bertha Alvarez Manninen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2018-02-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351819232

Civil Dialogue on Abortion provides a cutting-edge discussion between two philosophy scholars on each side of the abortion debate. Bertha Alvarez Manninen argues for her pro-choice view, but also urges respect for the life of the fetus, while Jack Mulder argues for his pro-life view, but recognizes that for the pro-life movement to be consistent, it must urge society to care more for the vulnerable. Coming together to discuss their views, but also to seek common ground, the two authors show how their differing positions nevertheless rest upon some common convictions. The book helps to provide a way forward for a divide that has only seemed to widen the aisle of public discourse in recent years. This engaging book will prove essential reading for students across multiple disciplines, including applied ethics, medical ethics, and bioethics, but will also be of interest to students of religious studies and women’s studies.

A Complicated Choice

A Complicated Choice
Author: Katey Zeh
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2022-02-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506473504

Too often, the public abortion debate depicts the experience of ending a pregnancy in falsely simplistic terms. Anti-abortion activists falsely contend that abortion is always emotionally damaging for the pregnant person, while pro-choice activists focus on honoring bodily autonomy and personal conscience without always giving voice to the nuances of abortion itself. In particular, the pro-choice movement fails to acknowledge that some people experience abortion as a kind of loss. A Complicated Choice addresses the fact that abortion stigma is ubiquitous, even among those who identify as pro-choice. We have not been supportive of people who have abortions, especially those whose experiences are complicated and involve grief and loss. Bringing the reader along the journeys of those who have had abortions, Rev. Katey Zeh opens up space for the complexities of our reproductive lives, giving voice to the experiences of grief, loss, and healing surrounding abortion experiences. She weaves these personal stories with key insights from the fields of psychology, theology, and public policy to illuminate the systemic injustices that undergird the conditions that shape a person's decision to end a pregnancy. A Complicated Choice goes beyond the falsely simplistic terms "pro-life" and "pro-choice" that define the public abortion debate and centers the real people making the decision to end a pregnancy in the context of their full lives and circumstances. A call to people of faith and to all people to examine our judgments about people who have abortions, we are invited into the act of sacred listening to the real stories of those most impacted. By focusing on these experiences, we will be drawn away from the stalemate of debate and into a spiritual response rooted in compassion for those who end pregnancies.

Reimagining Faith and Abortion

Reimagining Faith and Abortion
Author: Fiona Bloomer
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2024-01-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1447370171

In this book, faith leaders, scholars and activists from around the globe provide their perspective on faith and abortion. They reflect on examples of faith organisations which have provided leadership on the issue as well as examining religious approaches from Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim and interfaith perspectives. Challenging the assumption that all people of faith are anti-abortion, this book provides a counterpoint to right-wing faith perspectives and outlines how faith communities reimagine abortion as an issue of social, pastoral and theological concern. Providing perspectives from the global North and South, it includes settings where abortion is legal, and where it is restricted, and settings where abortion stigma is ever-present to settings where abortion is normalised. It also demonstrates the complex connections between faith and abortion, how women and pregnant people are positioned in society and how morality is claimed and challenged.

Sacred Choices

Sacred Choices
Author: Daniel C. Maguire
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451405743

This call to rethink major religious traditions on key topics of family planning provides a fresh, underreported side of these traditions. Written in a lively, engaging, and skilled style by a leading ethicist, this guide brings expert insights of major scholars in a manageable format.

Created to Live

Created to Live
Author: Cathy Harris
Publisher: Ambassador International
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-01-24
Genre: Abortion
ISBN: 9781620205716

In today's America, an abortion is performed every 26 seconds. Since 1973, nearly 58 million abortions have been performed in the United States alone, devastating countless women, men, and families. If you have had an abortion, know someone who has, or desire to make a pro-life impact in your community, Created to Live features resources, hard truths, and practical steps to help end the abortion epidemic. The days of hanging in the balance are over. The grey area is quickly becoming black or white. The choice is ours. Cathy Harris, a post-abortive woman herself, gives insight through her own story. Looking for new life for herself after her abortion, Cathy was brave enough to step through the doors of a church. Because of one bold conversation, a genuine community, and a merciful God, life found her. Now she dreams that other women will find the abundant life they search for, both before and after abortion. Equipping women, church communities, and pastors, Created to Live starts the conversation that few are brave enough to start. God will always be merciful: will you be part of the abortion-free community that thousands of women and babies need?

The Soul of Abortion

The Soul of Abortion
Author: Tziporah Kingsbury
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2020-12-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781946088680

Just talking about the tough stuff often provides a space for deep healing and new degrees of human connection. It creates freedom from the shackles of shame and isolation.This book is a blueprint to help us create new structures and ways to support the emotional and psychological impacts of abortion for women, their partners, and their communities as a whole. It is a compassionate invitation to talk about something that is often shoved in the closet, and carries with it so much shame and persecution, leaving many women feeling alone, disconnected, and not knowing where to turn.The Soul of Abortion carries a vision for women to come home to the fullness of their body, sex and spirit after having an abortion. It provides us with the skills and tools to make that vision come true. It also provides new structures, ideas and tools for loved ones, partners and community as a whole to have the ability to be present and available in a loving, compassionate way to receive women back into life through the mourning and grief cycles.

Sacred Rights

Sacred Rights
Author: Daniel C. Maguire
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2003-04-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 019028949X

This book presents the work of the "Sacred Choices Initiative" of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics. The purpose of this Packard and Ford Foundation supported initiative is to attempt to change international discourse on family planning and to rescue this debate from superficial sloganeering by drawing on the moral stores of the world's major and indigenous religions. In many of the world's religions there is a restrictive and pro-natalist view on family planning, and this is one legitimate reading of those religious traditions. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, this is not the only legitimate or orthodox view. These authors show that the paramaters of orthodoxy are wider and gentler than that, and that the great religious traditions are wiser and more variegated and nuanced than a simple repetition of the most conservative views would suggest. This theme is carried out in essays on each of the world's major religious traditions, written by scholar practitioners of those faiths.