The Archbishop of Canterbury Versus Primate of Episcopal Church USA on Abortion

I sometimes forget that Archbishop of Canterbury is very pro-life. That is because I guess I let the secular media frame even religious leaders for me though I should know much better.

Any Midwest Conservative Journal had the Archbishop's Christmas message which is good at NOT AS I DO.

In that message he said

"God chose to show himself to us in a complete human life, telling us that every stage in human existence, from conception to maturity and even death, was in principle capable of telling us something about God. Although what we learn from Jesus Christ and what his life makes possible is unique, that life still means that we look differently at every other life. There is something in us that is capable of communicating what God has to say – the image of God in each of us, which is expressed in its perfection only in Jesus.

Hence the reverence which as Christians we ought to show to human beings in every condition, at every stage of existence. This is why we cannot regard unborn children as less than members of the human family, why those with disabilities or deprivations have no less claim upon us than anyone else, why we try to makes loving sense of human life even when it is near its end and we can hardly see any signs left of freedom or thought.

Good for him!!!

However here in the USA things are not so grand as noted in one of the comments

The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, asked about abortion in a radio interview last week:

“We understand abortion to be a moral tragedy, but at the same time it needs to be available. It’s certainly not a first course or a sought-after choice, but in some circumstances it is probably the least of many evils.”

The full interview: http://www.knpr.org/audio2008/mp3/081209_kj-schori.mp3

Sigh