Friday, March 09, 2012


Episcopal Activist Tells Congress She Would Break the Law to Aid in Abortion

Activist Who Calls Abortion a 'Blessing' Tells Congress She Would Break the Law to Help Minors Cross State Lines to End Pregnancies

By Penny Starr
www.CNSNews.com
March 8, 2012

Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, president and dean of the Episcopal Divinity Church, testified at a House hearing on March 8, 2012 against a bill that would make it a federal crime to transport minor girls without parental consent across state lines to get an abortion. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)

Were Congress to outlaw the transporting of a minor without her parents' permission across state lines to get an abortion, an abortion- and gay-rights activist testifying on Capitol Hill Thursday she would break the law to continue to help girls end their pregnancies.

Appearing as a Democratic Party witness at a hearing of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, president and dean of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. recalled the time she took a 15-year-old girl she had never met before to get an abortion.

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