Presbyterian Pastor Defends Killing Two Babies in Abortions: “I Felt God’s Presence With Me”

In a recent sermon, a Presbyterian pastor says she felt God’s presence with her as she killed two of her own babies in abortions.

Rev. Rebecca Todd Peters is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), an Elon University professor and an abortion activist. She has given speeches and written books and columns for years about why she believes it is moral and ethical to kill unborn babies in abortions.

In a sermon delivered July 9 at The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, she defended having her unborn babies killed as an act of birth control. Wearing a pink stole emblazoned with the Planned Parenthood logo, she also claimed the Lord was with her when she ended their lives and that her actions were not sinful.

“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,” she told the church July 9. “A forced pregnancy or birth is not holy.”

Peters also upended all Biblical teachings about respect for life, not murdering or killing people and the value God places on people.

After falsely claiming that “the Bible doesn’t say anything about abortion,” she appeared to describe her own statement as “astonishing because the Bible has a lot to say about how people are to live what is and isn’t allowed. … [B]ut to reiterate, it says nothing about abortion.”

peters also peddled science fiction, denying the fact that an unborn baby is a human being starting at conception.

“The lens through which anti-choice Christians read the Bible is the theological belief that from the moment of fertilization, a zygote is biologically, morally, ontologically and in every other way indistinguishable from a baby,” she said. 

She said she believes abortion for any reason is morally justified, and the idea that abortion is wrong is “rooted in Christianity’s patriarchal vision of womanhood,” according to the report.

A number of mainline Protestant denominations have abandoned the Biblical commandment to not kill and other scripture that emphasizes the value of unborn babies and God’s abhorrence at the shedding of innocent blood when it comes to life in the womb.

Last year, the PCUSA passed a resolution supporting “reproductive justice” and “abortion care,” and LifeNews has reported about similar support for abortion from the United Church of Christ and United Methodist Church.

True Christianity raises up the most vulnerable, defends the defenseless and offers compassion to the suffering. This includes babies in the womb who, throughout the Bible, are recognized as unique, valuable human beings created in God’s image.

All across the U.S., Christians are working to save unborn babies and providing support and encouragement to pregnant and parenting mothers in need. Of course, pro-lifers of other faiths and no faith are doing this, too. Through pregnancy centers, maternity homes and many other charities, Christians are practicing true love for others by providing baby supplies, housing, financial assistance, parenting classes and more to help millions of mothers and babies thrive.

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