The Nation - News from June 18, 1986
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The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted to reaffirm the church’s pro-choice stand on abortion. By a 281-266 margin, church commissioners voting at the group’s annual meeting in Minneapolis rejected a measure that would have commissioned a study of whether the church’s 3.1 million members wanted to reconsider opinions on abortion. The Rev. Bart Tarman of Santa Barbara said the assembly “has missed a dynamic opportunity to reconsider the church’s abortion position.”
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