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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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The need for spiritual justification for abortion, for postabortionhealing, and for new abortion rhetoric has forced thefemin<strong>is</strong>t movement to acknowledge the humanity of unborn babieswhile couching abortion in religious or spiritual terms. PeggyLoonan, executive director of Life and Liberty for Women, anabortion rights group, admits she wants to “change the language,strategy, and landscape of the abortion debate.” 10 While Loonanacknowledges the “fetus <strong>is</strong> a human being,” 11 she maintains,“Intentionally killing an innocent human being <strong>is</strong> not always amoral wrong.” 12In a letter dated November 18, 2002, Loonan requested a10Peggy Loonan, “The Case for the Morality of Legal Abortion andAgainst Biblical Condemnation” (debate, Colorado State University, FortCollins, CO, November 15, 2000), Life and Liberty for Women,http://www.lifeandlibertyforwomen.org/<strong>is</strong>sues/<strong>is</strong>sues_morality_of_legal_abortion.html.11Ibid.12Ibid.193

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