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safeinOhio

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Fri Apr 22, 2016, 07:06 AM Apr 2016

Religious Freedom includes abortion...Seven Day Adventist do abortions?

The American Hospital Association Guide to the Health Care Field, 1986 lists 12 of the 56 Adventist hospitals in the United States as offering "abortion services," including "a program and facilities." 56

In summary
Early Adventism published positions in harmony with the Physicians' Crusade Against Abortion, though it was not active in that movement. The church produced its first set of abortion guidelines in 1970, when American attitudes toward abortion had changed and some of the church's hospitals were experiencing in creasing pressure from their communities to provide abortion services.

Less than a year after the first set of abortion guidelines was developed, the church revised and expanded it. The resulting liberalized guidelines have allowed Adventist hospitals a great deal of freedom in their abortion practices, a freedom that has resulted in a large number of abortions being performed. Although the church has been hesitant to let it be known, at the present it is clearly not, in either policy or practice, limiting its medical institutions to therapeutic abortions.



https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1991/0guidelines 8/abortion-history-of-adventist-

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