Bishop Willimon on Abortion


When Willimon was a chaplain at Duke University, a graduate student interviewed women who had had abortions. Their No. 1 reason for doing so, they said, was that they felt they “had no other options.”
“Ironically, we call this freedom to choose,” the student remarked.
But for Bishop Willimon it pointed out a lack of imagination within the church. "The role of the church is to stoke, fund and fuel alternatives we could not have come up with if we looked only at the alternatives the world gives us,”
Labels: life and bio-ethics, Methodism, Social Holiness and Service
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