Abortion Abolition: Beyond Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice Politics - Hardcover

Smith, Andrea

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798385212033

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2025

Synopsis

To quote Ruth Wilson Gilmore, ""Abolition is not absence, it is presence."" It is the creation of new systems and relationships that renders a practice or institution unnecessary. An abolition framework permits Christians to engage people across the current pro-life versus pro-choice divide and more effectively addresses the root causes of why there is abortion. This book is not focused on espousing a particular political position regarding electoral politics. Rather, it seeks to evaluate some assumptions that give rise to people feeling trapped in various political dilemmas. In interrogating these assumptions, we create more political and theological space that might open a more effective way to promote the lives of unborn children, their mothers, and their communities.

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About the Authors

Evangelicals4Justice is an eclectic network of evangelical thought leaders and activists dedicated to making broad cultural impact through prophetic witness to the whole church. We are both a listening and speaking body, mobilizing evangelicals to engage a holistic gospel in their personal lives and in the public square, doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with our God. Mae Elise Cannon (editor), Andrea Smith (author), with contributions by Andrew Cheung, Rob Dalrymple, and Soong-Chan Rah.

Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon is the executive director of Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP); author of the award winning Social Justice Handbook and other books on spirituality and justice. Cannon has several masters degrees and earned her doctorate in American History with the minor in Middle Eastern studies from the University of California--Davis, focusing on the history of the American Protestant church's engagement in Israel and Palestine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798385212033
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 130
• Editor: Cannon Mae Elise