Yes, and religious leaders have always been on the forefront of fight for abortion and other reproductive rights: Howard Moody, the Baptist minister who founded the New York Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, Harris Wilson, the dean of the Cathedral at the University of Chicago, who in the 1950's had actively fought Massachusetts’ ban on contraceptives, launched the Illinois Citizens for the Medical Control of Abortion. When I was in high school for a brief time I was a receptionist for the Unitarian minister in my town and I only realized later all the women who I didn't know because they didn't go to the church were there to get abortion referrals. The right to abortion is an individual right. Without it, we don't have rights to bodily autonomy, privacy, medical choice, or Freedom of Religion.

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Evelyn Jean Pine
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