Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly Resolution on Reproductive Health (2012)

Women’s access to health care, generally, and to reproductive health care in particular, is one of the bases of women’s equality, especially as women have entered the workforce. Since the 1970s, equal and adequate access to reproductive health care has been repeatedly supported by Presbyterian General Assemblies as essential to the exercise of our God-given responsibilities for family life. The church has encouraged marriage and parenthood as part of God’s covenant of life and family planning as integral to family wellbeing.