{"id":87488,"date":"2026-10-17T08:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87488"},"modified":"2026-10-17T08:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:50:25","slug":"methodist-pastor-killing-babies-in-abortions-is-moral-if-its-done-with-thoughtful-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/methodist-pastor-killing-babies-in-abortions-is-moral-if-its-done-with-thoughtful-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Methodist Pastor: Killing Babies in Abortions is \u201cMoral\u201d if It\u2019s Done With \u201cThoughtful Prayer\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From LifeNews.com:<\/p>\n<p>A United Methodist Church leader is promoting the notion that killing an unborn baby in an abortion is okay as long as the mother makes a \u201cthoughtful and prayerful\u201d decision first.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Robert Vaughn Jr., director of the General Board of Church and Society for the UMC, <a href=\"https:\/\/baptistnews.com\/article\/united-methodists-reluctant-pro-choice-stance-puts-clergy-and-laity-at-odds-with-new-texas-abortion-law\/#.YWgiMBxMGUk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/baptistnews.com\/article\/united-methodists-reluctant-pro-choice-stance-puts-clergy-and-laity-at-odds-with-new-texas-abortion-law\/%23.YWgiMBxMGUk&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1634411124724000&amp;usg=AFQjCNETbw-bYEMCwgB0Ia74kFBIkqVAPw\">told Baptist News Global<\/a> that the denomination takes a \u201creluctant pro-choice\u201d stance on abortion. And his board is in charge of supporting that position.\u00a0\u201cTerminating a pregnancy isn\u2019t just a medical decision; it requires advanced pastoral care so that a person can look at the whole picture,\u201d the Herndon, Virginia pastor said. \u201cThe United Methodist principle requires you to think through a decision, to seize the whole complexity of the question. It\u2019s not as simple as some easy slogan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From LifeNews.com: A United Methodist Church leader is promoting the notion that killing an unborn baby in an abortion is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87489,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87488\/revisions\/87489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}