Progressive group starts training pro-abortion rights religious leaders

[cbayer]

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/21/progressive-group-starts-training-pro-abortion-rights-religious-leaders/

By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor

(CNN) – A Washington advocacy group training in-the-trenches religious leaders to speak out on hot-button issues like abortion is nothing new.

But a liberal beltway group training left-leaning clergy to speak out for abortion rights is.

“Religion does support a woman’s personal decision-making about whether she is ready to become a parent,” said Sally Steenland, director of the Faith Initiative at the Center for American Progress, a progressive group that launched its Faith and Reproductive Justice Leadership Institute on Tuesday.

“We felt that the harsh anti-choice rhetoric dominating the public debate stigmatized women making these important decisions and claimed a monopoly on God, morality, and family values,” Steenland said in an e-mail message.

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[Skinner]

1. About time.

[Thats my opinion]

2. Most mainline denominations have been at this task for decades--and have long-since formed a network

of pro-choice groups.

[edhopper]

3. I know the headline is CNN's

and not yours.
But Jeez, 'pro-abortion'! People who are for a woman's choice are no more pro-abortion than the anti-abortion crowd is about 'Life".
In fact I would say that anti-abortion is very close to what they are. While the pro-choice people are for exactly that.

[cbayer]

4. I agree. The headline is unfortunate.

[LeftishBrit]

5. Actually it's 'pro-abortion rights', not 'pro-abortion'

There should really have been a hyphen between 'abortion' and 'rights'.