Angela Tilby: Pro-choice and -life both fall short
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OVER many years, I have listened, as a colleague and friend and also as a priest, to individual women who have wanted to talk about abortion. Those who have chosen to have the procedure to end an unwanted pregnancy often express relief, sometimes overladen with guilt; others express lasting regret. It is hardly surprising that, after the US Supreme Court’s ruling to end the constitutional right to abortion, feelings in the States are running high. Donald Trump is claiming that God made the decision, and pro-choice supporters describe it as part of a fascist takeover.
Three years ago, the celebrated American priest and author Fleming Rutledge explored her own mixed responses to the issue in a helpful (if inconclusive) blog (available to read at generousorthodoxy.org).
She starts from the conviction that abortion is a violation of human life and an offence to the Creator. Yet she wonders why so many of those who are vehemently pro-life are relatively indifferent to other such violatio...
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