![]() Sanchez/AP Show More Show Lessĩ of12 10 of12 FILE - The Very Rev. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune via AP, File) Armando L. The Illinois city near its eastern border with Indiana on Tuesday banned the mailing or shipping of abortion pills, defying the state's Democratic attorney general and the American Civil Liberties Union who have repeatedly warned that the move violates Illinois law's protection of abortion as a fundamental right. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File) Eddie Moore/AP Show More Show Less 8 of12 FILE - Mark Lee Dickson, a Texas pastor and anti-abortion activist, claps as members of the city council voted to approve an ordinance that would ban the mailing or shipping of abortion pills Tuesday, in Danville, Ill. It’s beyond the pale.” Andrew Welsh-Huggins/AP Show More Show LessĦ of12 7 of12 FILE - Curt Miller, right, pastor of the East Mountain Cowboy Church in Edgewood, prays with people attending the Town Council meeting, in Edgewood, N.M., Tuesday, April 25, 2023, to discuss whether the town should adopt a local abortion-ban ordinance, extending a wave of local abortion restrictions in eastern New Mexico. Clarke describes himself as “biblically pro-life,” yet he criticizes the stringent abortion bans being enacted in numerous Republican-led states as “excessive and extreme.” Referring to laws that would criminalize abortion-providing doctors and deny abortion to victims of rape, he said many people in his church “are saying this is going too far. “The abortionist is the murderer, and any law banning abortion should identify the abortionist uniquely as such.” Audrey Jackson/AP Show More Show Less 5 of12 FILE - Bishop Timothy Clarke of First Church of God in Columbus, right, calls for peaceful protests during the trial for the officer charged in killing George Floyd, at a news conference Monday, April 19, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio. “I think it is unjust, unnecessary, and unwise to include in abortion laws the prosecution of women who seek or obtain an abortion,” Barber writes in a lengthy article. Curry, said he was “deeply grieved” by that ruling, and the decision “institutionalizes inequality because women with access to resources will be able to exercise their moral judgment in ways that women without the same resources will not." Susan Walsh/AP Show More Show Lessģ of12 4 of12 FILE - Pastor Bart Barber, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, preaches from the pulpit of the First Baptist Church of Farmersville, Texas, on Sunday, Sept. ![]() Most mainline Protestants support the right to abortion, and several of their top leaders have decried the year-old Supreme Court ruling that undermined that right by reversing the Roe v. Carlos Osorio/AP Show More Show Less 2 of12 FILE - Bishop Michael Curry, presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church, speaks outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. Conference of Catholic Bishops supports sweeping bans on the procedure. Catholics believe abortion should be legal in all or most case, yet the U.S. National polls repeatedly show that a majority of U.S. The divisions are epitomized in the country's largest denomination – the Catholic Church. In the year since the Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion, America's religious leaders and denominations have responded in strikingly diverse ways. Aloysius Catholic Church, Friday, May 26, 2023, in Detroit. Anthony holding the infant Jesus is reflected in a wall in St.
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