Appointed in January and formally installed in March, American Baptists at Judson Memorial Church (a federated ABC/USA-UCC congregation) welcomed their new pastor, an ordained UCC minister. Part of her story appeared in the latest issue of Tikkun magazine.
Ed Pettibone forum moderator; PJ, I have deleted this "part of her story" because it is copyrighted material. It come from a magazne of very limited circulation. And by design the article is not avaiable on line with out registering on that magazines website. Our rule #3 states; Full-length quoting of previously printed material, with the exception of news stories, is not recommended. If a story or source is quote verbatim, credit must be given to the author and news source in order to avoid the appearance of plagiarism. However, news stories from websites which expressly prohibit copying and online distribution may not be copied in full on the BaptistLife.Com site.
For our participants; The part of this new pastors story in question, was her explaing 19 years after the fact why she as a married woman 39 years of age and with three children in dipers had an abrtion.
She concludes this part of her story by saying; "I am a 58-year-old sexual, mature woman. That's who I am. I had an abortion. I am not bragging and I am not apologizing.
Abortion that is legal, safe and rare is the best policy conceivable for men and women and for mature, moral sexuality"