Christians Must Take a Stand Against Abortion

The abortion debate takes many forms, and divides so many groups within our culture and our politics. Recently, the leak of a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade split Court-watchers, and brought the question of abortion's moral status within Christianity to the fore: Is there a single "Christian stance" on the issue? Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who presides over the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, thinks there is. He recently sent a letter banning House speaker Nancy Pelosi, a native of the Archdiocese, from receiving the Eucharist at Roman Catholic masses in its churches, as a result of her defense of abortion rights. On the other side of the debate, the Associated Press released a story last week about Christians who work in an Alabama abortion clinic and see that work as consistent with their faith, going so far as to tell each other that "God is on our side."