Abortion -- Is It Necessary?
In "Abortion -- Is it Necessary?" Reverend Tom Davis, minister in the United Church of Christ, posits that the “sacred work of justice,” which is the moral obligation of every American, necessitates safeguarding abortion rights, an integral element of providing adequate reproductive health care to all women. |
Further Reading on Abortion in America |
"Understanding women's reasons for having abortions can inform public debate and policy regarding abortion and unwanted pregnancy..." ->>Read further in an Alan Guttmacher Institute report (pdf file) published in September 2005. |
"With high-court debate brewing, new report shows [abortion] procedure's numbers [are] down..." ->>Read further in a July 2005 Washington Post article. |
"This year's state legislative season draws to a close having produced a near-record number of laws imposing new restrictions on a woman's access to abortion or contraception..." ->>Read further in an August 2005 article in the Washington Post. |
A New York Times article about Florida's dispute over abortion for girl in state shelter was discussed during the show. ->>Read further |
"About half (49%) of the approximately 5.4 million pregnancies occurring in the United States each year are unintended," asserts a factsheet, Abortion in the U.S., published by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. ->>Read further. (pdf file) |
"With an administration deeply opposed to abortion, a Congress poised to pass legislation aimed at weakening the principles underlying Roe v. Wade and a Supreme Court whose composition is considered likely to change in the near future, it is instructive to look back at the choices available—and not available—to women before abortion was made legal nationwide," states the Guttmacher Public Policy report entitled Lessons from Before Roe: Will Past be Prologue? ->>Read further (pdf file) published March 2003. |
Brief Bio for Reverend Tom Davis |
Tom Davis is an ordained minister with the United Church of Christ. He was trained for the ministry at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he studied under the renowned Reinhold Niebuhr at Union Seminary in New York City. Reverend Davis gained a doctorate from Duke University writing his dissertation on Adlai Stevenson. He was a credentialed New York State Alcoholism Counselor and chaired the NYS Accreditation Board for Alcoholism Counselors, 1979-1984. He is currently chaplain emeritus at Skidmore College, where he taught religion for 30 years. Reverend Davis is the chair of the Clergy Advisory Board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and writes for its journal, Clergy Voices. His book, Sacred Work: Planned Parenthood and Its Clergy Alliances was published by Rutgers University Press in February 2005. |
