APOSTATES GLORY IN MURDER & DEATH OF BABIES UNDER RELIGIOUS CLOAKS
"REV" HARRY KNOX, PRESIDENT OF RCRC
Rev. Harry F. Knox | President/CEO
Rev. Harry Knox is President and CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice in Washington, DC, people of faith working for women’s access to health care and self-determination. Prior to taking the helm at RCRC, Harry was the founding director of the Human Rights Campaign’s Religion and Faith Program, the first Program Director at Freedom to Marry, and Executive Director of Georgia Equality. He has pastored churches in Georgia and Texas, and has held positions with the American Cancer Society and Equality Florida. Harry was appointed by President Obama in February 2009 to the President’s first Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He is the recipient of the 2000 Cordle Award for Promotion of God’s Diversity, Lancaster Theological Seminary’s 2005 Robert V. Moss Medal for Excellence in Ministry, and the 2014 James T. Molloy Medal for Distinguished Alumni Service of the United States Senate Youth Program Alumni Association. He is married to retired civil rights attorney C. Michael Bozeman.
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Pro-Abortion United Methodist Minister Laura Young
United Methodist Minister:
Abortion Clinic Shows “a Reverence for Life”
by Killing Babies
SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/thank-god-for-abortion-providers-episcopal-and-methodist-clergy-bless-abortion-clinic/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Breitbart.com
Some ordained ministers are throwing their support behind abortion providers. Last week, for example, clergy for Episcopal and Methodist churches were among religious leaders who gathered in Cleveland to bless an abortion clinic.
“I’m here today standing alongside my fellow clergymen and clergywomen to say: thank God for abortion providers,” said Rev. Harry Knox, president and CEO of Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) which supports abortion rights and what it refers to as “abortion care.”
Knox, who is in a same-sex marriage, was the founding director of the Human Rights Campaign’s Religion and Faith Program, the first program director at Freedom to Marry, and executive director of Georgia Equality.
The Very Rev. Tracey Lind, dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, blessed the abortion clinic, saying, “Bless this building. May its walls stand strong against the onslaught of shame thrown at it. May it be a beacon of hope for those who need its services.”
The blessing event outside the Preterm abortion clinic was arranged by Rev. Laura Young, a United Methodist minister who is executive director of RCRC’s Ohio chapter, reports the Columbus Dispatch. Young calls herself a “progressive theological thinker and a feminist,” and says her goals include urging more clergy members to advocate for organizations that provide abortions and contraception.
At the abortion clinic, clergy members held up signs that read, “Pro-Faith, Pro-Family, Pro-Choice.”
Chrisse France, executive director of Preterm said, “At a time when abortion care providers are under attack, we are so thankful to be surrounded by the faith community as they share their powerful voices in saying no to the shame and stigma.”
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PRETERM ABORTUARY CLINIC
12000 Shaker Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44120.1922
216.991.4000 or Toll Free 877.PRETERM (773.8376)
EXCERPT FROM:
"At Preterm, we honor the faith and spirituality that our patients bring to their pregnancy decisions and abortion experience. Our Reflection Room, created as sacred space, is available for prayer and contemplation. It is stocked with books from several faith traditions. We also have collections of prayers, reflections, and rituals that our staff and our patients have found or created to provide comfort and meaning during this time. Our patient advocates are here to help every woman find the spiritual resources she needs to make her decision and to heal, including referrals to local pro-choice clergy.
People of many religions and faith traditions agree that a woman is a moral agent able and responsible for making decisions about sexuality, pregnancy, and childbearing according to her own conscience and her own relationship with her god or divine power. Historically, many clergy members helped women obtain abortions when laws made that difficult, and they worked to ensure safe, legal abortion for all women. Many major denominations and faith traditions have adopted clear statements in support of reproductive rights."
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FROM: http://www.preterm.org/about-preterm/who-we-are-history.htm; republished below in full unedited for informational,
educational, and research purposes:
"Preterm opened its doors on March 15, 1974, a little more than a year after Roe v. Wade legalized abortion throughout the U.S. We offered abortion counseling and procedures through 10 weeks, for a fee of $160. We performed three abortions the first day. Our offices on Carnegie Ave. were designed to be homey and comfortable, decked out in golds and browns rather than clinical white.
The founders and original staff were committed women’s health activists who had previously worked with Cleveland Women’s Counseling (CWC). CWC provided health & birth control information, abortion counseling, and referrals to out-of-state clinics they had visited and approved. After Roe, this core group became concerned that no existing agency would step up to provide supportive abortion services in Cleveland, so they decided to do it themselves. In partnership with the Preterm Institute, a Boston nonprofit, they began to plan a clinic that would confirm the dignity of women and guarantee their freedom to make choices about their lives.
It was their vision that Preterm Cleveland would be:
- A model built on health, not sickness
- A place where women would receive affirmation and support, from both staff and each other
- A facility in which participating physicians could take pride
- A place where counseling would support and educate each patient
- A service that would be nonprofit, tax exempt, and inexpensive
- A center that would be ethical, caring and humane both for the patients and for the staff.
The clinic has been guided by these values ever since.
Under the leadership of original executive director Carolyn Buhl and her successor, Chrisse France, who took over in 1999, Preterm has continued to provide the highest quality abortion care, to participate in important studies to advance the field, and to educate and advocate for reproductive health and freedom.
Some of the highlights of our history include:
- 1974 Preterm successfully joined the ACLU and NOW as plaintiff against the State Auditor in order to force payment for abortion services for women on Medicaid.
- 1975 Research conducted with Preterm patients was written up by Dr. Sam Lane and Dr. John Wilson (CSU Psychology department) in “Conceptualizing the Abortion Decision and Moral Reasoning: Implications for Counseling.”
- 1976 Preterm and the ACLU successfully fought the first attempted Ohio parental consent law.
- 1983 After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the law requiring that second trimester abortions be performed in a hospital, Preterm began offering abortion services through 16 weeks; shortly thereafter through 17.5 weeks.
- 1989 Human chains kept clinic doors open and more than 100 people were arrested during the summer of "Operation Rescue."
- 1992 Faced with losing our longtime lease, Preterm embarked on a major capital campaign and eventually purchased a derelict building on Shaker Blvd. (where we moved in 1994).
- 1995 & 1998 Preterm participated in clinical trials of RU486 & mifepristone, “the abortion pill.”
- 1997 Preterm established the Gerson-Britton endowment to guarantee funding for medically indigent patients.
- 2004 Preterm acted as a Cleveland co-sponsor of the March for Women’s Lives in Washington, DC. Ten buses from Cleveland, including half of Preterm’s staff, attended.
- 2006 “In Their Shoes,” dramatic readings from the journals kept in Preterm waiting rooms, performed by Dobama Theatre actors, premiered at a June fundraising event.
- 2007 Preterm launched a three-year “Act Boldly, Live Gently” plan to transform the clinic into an energy efficient, sustainable healthcare facility.
- 2009 To further assist women in need of pregnancy options, Preterm began offering open adoption services in partnership with the Spence-Chapin agency in New York.
- 2010 will be another big year ... We are submitting application for LEED-EB (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings) certification, participating in important studies and education initiatives, and sponsoring an abortion speak-out to combat stigma, all while continuing to provide compassionate, high-quality abortion services."
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