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Anglican Church Seeks Third Option in Abortion Debate: Neither Woman nor Foetus Should be Victim, Report Says
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official1843
- Date
- 1988 May 13
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Record Type
- Press Release
- Text
- For immediate release
- Mississauga, May 13, 1988 -- The Anglican Church will today [EDITOR: Friday] attempt to define a third choice in the debate on therapeutic abortion.
- A task force report to be delivered to the church's national executive council meeting here this afternoon, says: "Too often the abortion debate is couched in terms of a woman's right over her own body as against a foetus's right to life." It suggests the issue may be addressed from a new perspective in which neither the mother nor the foetus is required to serve as "victim."
- "Christians hold a spectrum of personal views about the morality of abortion, from utter rejection of it to conviction that it is a personal ethical matter for a woman."
- Either approach, the report suggests, is one-sided: either it ignores the cry of the unborn while trying to raise the status of women; or it remains indifferent to the plight of women while trying to protect the unborn.
- The task force was convened in March to consider the Anglican Church's stance on abortion in light of the Supreme Court's decision in the Morgentaler case. That decision declared the provisions of the Criminal Code dealing with abortions to be unconstitutional. The church had previously expressed its support for the law.
- The 15-page report recommends that the church continue to oppose unregulated access to abortion. The church, it says, sees abortion as "always a tragedy fraught with moral ambiguity...To resort to abortion lightly or casually is to degrade our humanity, to deny the responsibility and responsiveness of human nature."
- SEEKING "TRUE" CHOICE
- The report spends its greatest energy addressing the circumstances in which women "choose" abortion. In many cases, it says, the choice is hollow: When women choose to abort, it is frequently in coercive, lonely and grief-stricken circumstances where they feel completely unable to bear their child. Often the biggest problem facing the woman is her lack of a real social and economic support system. Many women who choose not to bear their children, then, make their decision out of alienation and hopelessness.
- "For us as Christians, such despair cannot be left as the motive force...True choice must involve alternatives to despair."
- The report says new legislation to regulate abortion should "establish procedures to make abortion available equitably across the country as a therapeutic measure for women whose pregnancies endanger their life or their physical or mental health." It says counselling should be required.
- The report rejects the concept of legislating easy access to early abortion and more restricted access later in the term (after 12 weeks for example): "Abortion is always the taking of a human life and, in our view, should never be done except for serious therapeutic reasons. Any such line is arbitrary and seems to argue that the value of the foetus and the seriousness of abortion in the early stages will be discounted."
- ABORTION OR POVERTY TOO OFTEN ONLY CHOICE
- Noting that many women have a choice of aborting a foetus or bearing a child to live in poverty, the report urges an extensive program of social action to reduce conditions which make the choice of abortion more likely. It stresses the need for:
- * more affordable housing;
- * pay equity for women;
- * a guaranteed annual income, and other financial measures "to secure the dignity -- indeed the survival -- of mothers and children;"
- * universally accessible, publicly funded child care;
- * an intensified national program to collect child support payments from delinquent fathers;
- * better educational programs about sexuality, including contraception, in the schools;
- * and other measures.
- The council, which has been meeting since Wednesday, concludes late this afternoon.
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- For further information contact: Doug Tindal, Director of Communications, Anglican Church of Canada, (416) 924-9192 ext 286, (416) 335-8349 residence
- Subjects
- Abortion - Canada
- Abortion - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Sexual ethics - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Bioethics - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Women - Canada
- Birth control - Canada
- Birth control - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Contraception - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Poor women - Canada
- Poverty - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
International Anglican Family Network : Women and the Family
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article29495
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2002 Trinity
- Issue
- 106
- Page
- [25]-[36]
- Notes
- Issue of IAFN Newsletter included as part of the Anglican World for Trinity 2002. An editorial and series of short reports from different agencies and countries about women and the "economic and social changes ... affecting the role of women in the family." "Research shows that the educating women and girls is the single most effective strategy for reducing poverty."
- Subjects
- International Anglican Family Network (IAFN)
- Women - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Women - Economic conditions
- Family - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Women - Uganda
- Women - Nigeria
- Women - Religious aspects - Church of Nigeria
- Women - Kenya
- Alcoholism - Kenya
- Alcoholism - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Kenya
- Women - Sudan
- Women - Economic conditions - Sudan
- Women - Congo
- Women - Zaire
- Women - Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Women - India
- Women - Religious aspects - Church of South India
- Church of South India. Diocese of Tirunelveli
- Women - Lebanon
- Women - Hong Kong (China)
- Women - Religious aspects - Holy Catholic Church in Hong Kong
- Family - New Zealand
- Family - Canada
- Mothers' Union - Anglican Church of Canada
- Women - Canada
- Family - England
- Women - England
- Women - United States
- Women - Papua New Guinea
- Family violence - Papua New Guinea
- Family violence - Religious aspects - Church of the Province of Melanesia
- Family violence - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea
- Violence against women - India
- Violence against women - Religious aspects - Church of the Province of Melanesia
- Violence against women - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea
- Mothers' Union. Literacy and Development Programme
Meech Lake Accord
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official765
- Date
- 1987 October 19-21
- Source
- National Executive Council. Minutes
- Record Type
- Resolution 44-10-87
- Date
- 1987 October 19-21
- Record Type
- Resolution 44-10-87
- Mover
- Mrs. H. Woolley
- Seconder
- Ms. J. McCann
- Text
- That the National Executive Council requests the Primate to convey to the Prime Minister, the Premiers of the Provinces and the Territorial Government Leaders our opposition to the process being followed by the Governments of Canada and the Provinces as embodied in the Meech Lake Accord, and express to them our grave concern about:
- a) the negation of the rights of Native people, including the right to be consulted;
- b) the diminution of the rights of women and the recognition of men and women as equal persons;
- c) the denial of the rights of the Northwest Territories and Yukon to participate fully in Canadian political and public life.
- Moved by Ven. A.R. Reed
- Seconded by: Dr. L.L. Whytehead
- That the words "the negation of", "the diminution of", and "the denial of" be deleted. DEFEATED
- The original motion was put and CARRIED #44-10-87
- Subjects
- Meech Lake Constitutional Accord (1987)
- Christianity and politics - Anglican Church of Canada
- Canada - Constitution
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada
- Indigenous peoples - Canada
- Women - Canada
- Northwest Territories
- Yukon Territory
Through the glass clearly: Canadian women's education, work and sexuality
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/676
- Publication Date
- 1984
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- General Synod Archives
- Call Number
- SD80 .S35
- Place
- Toronto
- Publisher
- The Student Christian Movement of Canada
- Publication Date
- 1984
- Physical_Description
- [110 p.] : illus.
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- General Synod Archives
- Call Number
- SD80 .S35
Women in the Post War World
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article31811
- Author
- Hewelcke, Geoffrey
- Whitton, Charlotte Elizabeth, 1896-1975
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Bulletin [Council for Social Service]
- Date
- 1945 October 10
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1945 October 10
- Issue
- 123
- Page
- 1-12 p.
- Notes
- "We are glad to present an article by Dr. Charlotte Whitton, C.B.E., church-woman and publicist, whose background in social welfare and international circles permits her to speak with authority. We commend her analysis of the position of women in the post-war world and her insistence upon the primary necessity of viewing the problems of the day, local or world-wide, from the spiritual point of view. For women, as for men, Dr. Whitton contends that personal freedom, proper and not used as `a cloke of maliciousness', can be retained only as we continue to emphasize, with all its implications radiating out into organized life, the spiritual principle in man and the universe. Her appeal is in the first instance to Church women. The article is expanded from an address given by Dr. Whitton before a public meeting sponsored by the Woman's Auxiliary in the Diocese of Niagara, under the Chairmanship of the Rt. Reverend Bishop [Lewis W.B.] Broughall. Her challenge, however, widens out to all women in Canada". -- Note.
- Contents: Note / W.W. Judd -- The Churchwoman in The Nation's Life / Charlotte Whitton -- Marriages Mended / Geoffrey Hewelcke.
- Article "Marriages Mended" is reproduced from "Maclean's Magazine of 15 November. "In these post-war years one of the most pressing tasks of the pastoral ministry will be that of helping to knit up many marital separations and of preventing the breaking up of many marriages. .... Clergy will have to exercise their knowledge, wisdom and sympathy in helping the unhappy people involved. Not all cases will be amenable to cure. .... The Church's ministry is one of reconciliation where reconciliation if at all possible. The very few Family Courts in Canada are doing an extremely helpful work. Where there is no such Court the clergyman is among the best qualified to help -- and where there is such a Court, he is able, often, to advise and otherwise to assist." -- Foreword, p. 10.
- Subjects
- Women - Canada
- Family - Canada
- World War, 1939-1945 - Women - Canada
- Women's rights - Canada
- Women - Employment - Canada
- Women - Religious life
- Women - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Marriage - Canada
- Marriage counselling - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Domestic relations courts - Canada