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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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within the body of Chr<strong>is</strong>t to defend the unborn, the Church steppedto the side of the abortion debate and did not invest theseindividuals with its God ordained authority.For those of us struggling to make meaning out of thecultural collapse around us and the Church’s mixed message, we feltd<strong>is</strong>enfranch<strong>is</strong>ed. Without the clear leading of the Church, pro­lifeChr<strong>is</strong>tians were left to figure out their own response. We knew lovewas the answer to abortion but our “flesh” was involved too. Whileloving the sinner, we also focused on a worldly response to aspiritual problem. The majority of us felt if we could only prove thehumanity of the unborn baby, hearts would soften, laws wouldchange, the culture would rebound ­abortion would end.Hindsight <strong>is</strong> twenty­twenty. With the advent of femin<strong>is</strong>tspirituality and the ferociousness in which abortion supportersdemand the right to partial­birth abortion, we now know th<strong>is</strong> to beuntrue. Due to the Church’s indifference over abortion, or at the299

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