2001 Synod Assembly

Abortion Resolution Failed

A resolution failed that would have asked the Churchwide Assembly to limit abortion coverage under the ELCA health care plan. Currently the plan does not ask about the details regarding the circumstances surrounding a terminated pregnancy.

The resolution, 2001-14, would have memorialized the assembly to direct the Board of Pensions to enact regulations that would limit coverage to those pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, where the embryo or fetus has lethal abnormalities incompatible with life, or where the life of the mother is threatened. Understandably, debate was passionate.

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