Abortion-promoting pastors offer blessings to Planned Parenthood
“God loves you and is with you no matter what you decide. You can find strength, understanding, and comfort in that love.” So reads the “Pastoral Letter to Patients” from the Clergy Advocacy Board of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In the midst of recent allegations surrounding Planned Parenthood’s activities (see “Pieces of children” in this issue), it’s sobering to remember those denominational leaders who support the abortion industry.
Churches have supported the work of Planned Parenthood for years. In his Sacred Work: Planned Parenthood and Its Clergy Alliances, Tom Davis, a United Church of Christ minister and past chair of Planned Parenthood’s Clergy Advocacy Board, details the role “mainline Protestant and Jewish clergy, in their alliance with Planned Parenthood, have played?…?in achieving respectability for birth control,” while working “below the public radar.”