America’s third largest religious body voted last week to quit the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), a Washington-based interfaith abortion rights lobby that the United Methodist Church helped found in 1973. Methodists also voted to delete the church’s 40-year-old resolution affirming Roe v. Wade.
When United Methodism organized what was then called the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights in the wake of Roe v. Wade, the church was still culturally and politically influential, with about 10 million members. It was and is the largest Mainline Protestant denomination.
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