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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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abortion. In both cases, femin<strong>is</strong>ts are using a spirituality of theirown creation to reframe the abortion debate.As PPFA demonstrates, femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality <strong>is</strong> not the onlyway abortion <strong>is</strong> being repackaged. Although a growing number ofabortion supporters are adopting femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality’s cyclical viewof life, others still hold to the traditional perspective that denies anunborn baby personhood before a certain stage of biologicaldevelopment or before birth. Ironically, th<strong>is</strong> group often points tothe Bible as justification for abortion.In an apparent effort to “take back the higher moralground,” as Loonan adv<strong>is</strong>ed, abortion supporters are formulatingabortion in religious, even Chr<strong>is</strong>tian,terms. They claim their perspective on abortion <strong>is</strong> “another valid,Bible based alternative.” 151151Anne Eggebroten, ed., Abortion My Choice, God’s Grace (Pasadena:New Paradigm Books, 1994), 18.260

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