Rachel's Tears, Hannah's Hope

Today the House of Bishops will consider a resolution to add a series of supplemental prayer book materials that include prayers addressing situations such as unexpected or unwanted pregnancies, the loss of a child, termination of pregnancy,, infertility or sterilization and adoption.
The material was developed in response to the 2003 General Convention resolution asking for services for healing services for people who experience child-bearing or child-birth trauma.
Although the overall project was readily accepted and anticipated, the debate rose primarily over a specific 'Rite of Repentance and Reconciliation for an Abortion' The committee members acknowledged the difficulty about working with this resolution without making a political or theological statement about abortion