CLERGYMEN DENOUNCE ABORTION

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22109, 3 June 1937, Page 16

CLERGYMEN DENOUNCE ABORTION

CONCERTED ACTION TO BE CONSIDERED Strong support for the resolution of the Anglican General Synod against the practice of abortion was giveh at a meeting of Anglican clergymen in St John’s Hall, Latimer square, following an address (requested by the Christchurch Clerical Society), by Dr. L. C. L. Averill, on aspects of the report of the commission set up by the Government to inquire into abortion in the Dominion. A committee was set up to report on the speediest method of arranging effective concerted religious action in support of the commission’s recommendations, and in bringing the moral and religious aspects before the public. The meeting resolved to express its strong • endorsement of the Synod’s resolution —that the Synod “views the practice of abortion as a sin against God, a sin against society, and a sin against the human body,” and that it “is appalled by the revelation, in the courageous report of the recent commission, of the deplorable state of public opinion on the subject; and urges all Christian people . . . to testify to the glory of parenthood, and to abhorrence of its frustration by abortion.”