APPENDIX C: PRO-LIFE & PRO-CHOICE LISTS
APPENDIX C: PRO-LIFE & PRO-CHOICE LISTS
The following lists include the names of the writers and readers who expressed their opinions about the issue of abortion in the leading SDA publications between the following years: 1970 and 2006. Their position on abortion was determined according to the criteria established in Chapter I of this study. Those individuals whose attitude towards the sanctity of human life could not be determined were excluded from these lists.
The majority of the individuals are assumed to have been members of the SDA denomination at the time of their writing. Some of them have since left the church. No effort was made to weed out those who have expressed their opinion on the issue without being directly connected with the SDA organization. It should be understood that the attitude of many Adventists is rather fluid, and that what they have expressed in the past, does not necessarily reflect their current position on abortion today.
This is illustrated by the fact that some individuals who were labeled as pro-choice on the basis of some of their writings were re-labeled as pro-life later on based on additional writings they published on a different date or venue. If anyone’s position on the issue was misinterpreted, please write to the investigator of this study for a more correct placement in any follow-up studies.
Pro-Life
Acosta, Luis F.
Andrews, J.N.
Augsburger, Daniel
Auxt, Andrew
Bacchiocchi, Samuelle
Beem, Arthur D.
Beem, Teresa
Blake, Ken
Blake, Kenneth
Bohr, Stephen P.
Boonstra, Shawn
Cargill, R.M.
Crawford, David F.
Dunn, Robert H.
David, A. S.
Dean, Shirley B.
Dick, W. G.
Doss, Desmond T.
Endres, Sarah
Newman, David J.
Fielding, Jim
Florea, Jeremiah
Forsyth, Diane Dunlap
Fortin, Dennis
Fredericks, Richard
Gainer, George
Gallimore, Jay
Glenn, David
Gromm, Terry C.
Gutel, William L.
Hamilton, Thomas
Harmon, Ralph
Harter, Chris
Hays, Robert E.
Jessen, Timothy
Jones, Kathleen
Kellogg, John Harvey
Kerbs, John G.
Kumamoto, Danny
Kurlinski, John
Laurell, Clifford
Mansell, D.E.
McCall, William
McMillan, Leonard
McPherson, Robert
Meier, Hugo
Miceli, David
Muller, Richard
Nicholls, Charles W.
Nicoll, Regis
O’Ffil, R.W.
Ottey, Van
Peacher, Keith
Phillips, Pauline W.
Preez, Ron Du
Ratzlaff, Dale
Regester, Willard D.
Samojluk, Nic
Sanchez, Ernie
Scholes, David A.
Schreven, Leo
Smith, Uriah
Spangler, J.R.
Storey, Joseph L.
Sweem, Ardyce
Terian, Karkkainen Sara
Thomsen, Ron
Todd, John
Weber, Martin
Westerndorf, R.F.
Whelton, Beverly
White, Ellen G.
White, James
Wiltse, Glen L.
Young, Curt
Youngberg, John
Youngberg, Millie
Pro-choice
Allen, Sydney
Anderson, Jim
Allred, Edward
Andreasen, Niels-Erik
Bacchiocchi, Samuelle
Beach, W.R.
Bork, Paul F.
Bruinsma, Reinder
Brunt, John C.
Crosby, Timothy
Ferguson, John
Fisher, Edward G.
Fulop, Mark
Hampton, David
Hanks-Harwood, Ginger
Hubell, C. L.
Jackson, Gordon E.
Maxwell, R. Maureen
Paulsen, Jan
Paulson, Kevin D.
Pearson, Michael D.
Provonsha, Jack W.
Ricker, George M.
Sakala, Elmar P.
Stevens, John V., Sr.
Stirling, Betty J.
Wadell, Ralph F.
Walters, James W.
White, Charles
Whiting, M.L.
Wilson, Neal
Winslow, Gerald
Woodward, Clarice J.
Ziprick, Harold F.
Considering the discrepancy in the length of these two lists (see the statistical analysis performed in Chapter XIII of this investigation), it would be safe to conclude that the official Guidelines on Abortion do not reflect the attitude of the majority of those who have expressed their opinions on the controversial issue on abortion in the pages of the leading publications of the SDA community. It seems that, at the time their opinions were written, two thirds (see chapter XIII) of the individuals included in this study held a pro-life attitude on abortion.
This important fact was ignored by the leaders of the church who approved a pro-choice document. It must be noted also, that the long list of individuals in the pro-life group seems to add validity to the above conclusions, given the fact that the criteria for inclusion in the pro-life category were rather stringent (see the definition for the pro-life label adopted for this study found in Chapter I.)
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