RN-T.com - Baptist group rescinds grant to women’s clinic: The Women of Worth clinic’s main goal is to provide Pap smears and cervical cancer screenings for women who cannot afford them — it does not provide abortions, said Executive Director Marilyn Ringstaff. When a representative from the Georgia Baptist Health Care Ministry Foundation called last year during the application process for a $42,000 grant to ask if they were an abortion clinic, a volunteer told them “no,” she said. But they do offer the morning after pill.
And when an unidentified pastor saw that the Baptist group had awarded WOW the grant he called the Georgia Baptist Health Care Ministry, accusing the local clinic of providing abortions, she alleged. On Tuesday, Ringstaff received a letter from Will Bacon, vice president of development for the ministry, officially rescinding the grant offer.
Editor: The question that should have been asked is, "Do you provide abortions or refer women to doctors who will perform them?" I would also like to know how this Baptist group justifies supporting a clinic that facilitates the sexual activity of unmarried women? Were there no pregnancy centers they could support? We could have helped them find several.
Update: Baptist charity pulls grant from clinic that distributes the morning-after pill -- Will Bacon, the ministry’s vice president of development, sent the clinic a letter last Tuesday asking for the funds to be returned. But Women of WORTH executive director Marilyn Ringstaff has said she will not comply. “We have no intention of giving a dime back. They are going to have to file suit to get it.”
. . . Funding abortion would be at odds with the Baptist charity’s history and faith. According to its most recent annual report, GBHCM assigns all grants with “reverence for the dignity of each person,” based on “Christian life and family values.” Many of its expenditures have underwritten alternatives to abortion, such as crisis pregnancy centers.
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