{"id":138043,"date":"2025-06-24T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138043"},"modified":"2025-06-24T18:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T22:57:34","slug":"church-times-more-than-250-clergy-voice-concern-at-dangerous-change-to-abortion-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138043","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) More than 250 clergy voice concern at \u2018dangerous change\u2019 to abortion law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nineteen Bishops are among more than 250 Church of England clergy who have signed a letter condemning a move to decriminalise women who induce their own\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/abortion\">abortion<\/a>\u00a0as \u201ca dangerous change\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, MPs voted by 379 to 137 in favour of an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill brought by the Labour MP for Gower, Tonia Antoniazzi. This disapplies the existing criminal law relating to abortion from women \u201cacting in relation to her own pregnancy\u201d. The amendment does not change any law regarding the provision of abortion within a healthcare setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter, published in\u00a0<em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Daily Telegraph<\/em>\u00a0on Friday, says: \u201cWe are troubled by the amendment voted through by the House of Commons on Tuesday to decriminalise terminations\u00a0<em>in utero<\/em>\u00a0up to full term. As many elected politicians move further away from the Christian moral values that have hitherto shaped much that is good in our national life, our concern is that the vulnerable and voiceless are increasingly overlooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/27-june\/news\/uk\/more-than-250-clergy-voice-concern-at-dangerous-change-to-abortion-law\">Read it all<\/a> (registration or subscription).<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nineteen bishops sign letter; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bishopoffulham?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bishopoffulham<\/a> and the Bishop of Oswestry also express \u2018profound disquiet\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0GtctjduOt\">https:\/\/t.co\/0GtctjduOt<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1937609739938013413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nineteen Bishops are among more than 250 Church of England clergy who have signed a letter condemning a move to decriminalise women who induce their own\u00a0abortion\u00a0as \u201ca dangerous change\u201d. On Tuesday, MPs voted by 379 to 137 in favour of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138043\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,101,389,635,438,199,168,114,96,98,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138047,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138043\/revisions\/138047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}