THIS PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER WANTS CHURCHES TO TALK MORE ABOUT ABORTION

Washington Post (July 14, 2023)

“I felt God’s presence with me as I made the decision to end two pregnancies, and I felt no guilt, no shame, no sin,” [Peters] told the congregation in Chapel Hill. “A forced pregnancy or birth is not holy.”

THE 12 BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ POST SCOTUS’S ROE V. WADE SMACKDOWN

Oprah Daily (June 24, 2022)

“The problem is our inability to trust women to act as rational, capable, responsible moral agents who must weigh the concrete moral question of what to do when they are pregnant or when there are problems during a pregnancy.”

CHRISTIAN ETHICIST SAYS TO TRUST WOMEN ON ABORTION

Religion & Politics (June 5, 2018)

“In a country where abortion is legal and women do not have to explain to their health-care providers why they wish to end a pregnancy, why does our cultural debate continue to judge and shame women for having abortions?”

WHY THIS CHRISTIAN MINISTER IS ADVOCATING FOR ABORTION RIGHTS

Refinery29 (May 2, 2018)

“The notion that all Christians are anti-abortion is very false.”

A CHRISTIAN ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION:
A Q & A WITH REBECCA TODD PETERS

The Nation (April 11, 2018)

“Abortion is a moral issue, just not in the way we’ve been taught,” argues Rebecca Todd Peters, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church and professor of religious studies at Elon University.

CRITICS AND ACTIVISTS ADD FERMENT TO RELIGION PUBLISHING

Publishers Weekly (March 23, 2018)

“Unplanned pregnancy and abortion are a normal part of many women’s reproductive lives, and…shaming women who have abortions is another way to control women’s bodies and curtail their choices.”

BEYOND ABORTION: WHY REBECCA TODD PETERS WROTE TRUST WOMEN

Publishers Weekly (March 23, 2018)

“As women’s access to healthcare got more difficult, abortion and reproductive rights moved to the forefront of my research agenda.”

24 AMAZING NEW FEMINIST BOOKS
COMING IN 2018

Book Riot (Dec 19, 2017)

“The real problem is not abortion, but our inability to trust women to make their own decisions about what is right for their bodies, their families, and their lives.”