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Dr. Russell Earl Kelly published a book in 2005 titled Exposing Seventh-day Adventism. The book can be read for free at the internet archive here (shared with Dr. Kelly's permission): https://archive.org/details/RussellEarlKellyExposingSeventhDayAdventism/mode/2up A section of the book was dedicated to attacking the seventh-day Sabbath. Edwin Cotto of the Advent Defense League published responses to Dr. Kelly's arguments in Chapter 17 (The Sinless Creation Sabbath Rest) and Chapter 18 (The Weekly Sabbath Day). Mr. Cotto's responses to Chapter 17 and 18 can be found here: 
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This page keeps a record of links to important material concerning the history of abortion within the Seventh-day Adventist church. Due to expiring or broken links this page is updated regularly as needed. Please contact me if any of the following links no longer work. Thank you. Seventh-day Adventists Pioneers Anti-abortion History http://www.hewantsfruit.com/blog/seventh-day-adventists-pioneers-anti-abortion-history Research report presented at the Loma Linda University International Conference on Abortion held November 14-16, 1988 at Loma Linda University, under the auspices of the Center for Christian Bioethics. "The Wisdom Of Solomon? Or The Politics Of Pragmatism: The General Conference Abortion Decision 1970-71" by George Gainer here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JEWzK9SsZLWC2t3S3xh3tud-OmB4yfr7/view Liberty magazine publishes abridged version of Gainer's research. "Abortion: history of Adventist guidelines" 1991 Ministry magazine article by George Gainer: https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1991/08/abortion-history-of-adventist-guidelines 1993 January, Liberty Magazine report on 1992 Annual Council vote on abortion guidelines. "After spirited discussion, including moves to jettison the section containing the phrase “serious jeopardy to her health,” the guidelines were accepted, with only five dissenting" (emphasis by hewantsfruit site) source: https://adventistdigitallibrary.org/adl-412782/liberty-january-1-1993 1992 Annual Council minutes, Abortion decision, October 12, 1992 https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Minutes/GCC/GCC1992-10b.pdf 1992 Annual Council in attendance October 6, 1992 https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Minutes/GCC/GCC1992-10a.pdf Reaction of SDA leadership to Roe vs. Wade. Elvin L. Benton Liberty and the Law, The Unborn in the Court of the Living, Liberty magazine May June 1973 page 29 https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/LibM/LibM19730301-V68-03.pdf Liberty magazine editor commentary -- Abortion: Point and Counterpoint page 32 November/December 1973, "if the Supreme Court is to be condemned, let it be for its alleged failure to protect society from the civil crime of killing its citizens rather than for failing to stamp out ecclesiastical sin." https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/LibM/LibM19730601-V68-06.pdf The Partisan Trajectory of the American Pro-Life Movement: How a Liberal Catholic Campaign Became a Conservative Evangelical Cause, by Daniel K. Williams https://www.mdpi.com/96540 Facebook Removes ‘Adventists for Life’ Page After Infringement Complaint, By Debra Cassens Weiss, February 1, 2011, https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/facebook_removes_adventists_for_life_page_after_infringement_complaint (dead link) https://www.onfaith.co/onfaith/undergod/2011/01/adventists_pressure_facebook_to_dump_pro-life_group.html https://web.archive.org/web/20190214061537/https://www.onfaith.co/onfaith/undergod/2011/01/adventists_pressure_facebook_to_dump_pro-life_group.html https://web.archive.org/web/20181231164928/https://www.onfaith.co/onfaith/2011/01/30/adventists-pressure-facebook-to-dump-pro-life-group/2505 PRO-WHAT? Seventh-day Adventists and Abortion Research paper by Dr. Ronald Lawson Presented at the Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion https://ronaldlawson.net/2018/05/02/pro-what-seventh-day-adventists-and-abortion/ also https://web.archive.org/web/20240419014220/https://ronaldlawson.net/2018/05/02/pro-what-seventh-day-adventists-and-abortion/ "Our Abortion Guidelines Are Too Good To Replace!" https://spectrummagazine.org/views/2019/our-abortion-guidelines-are-too-good-replace 1992 Guidelines https://web.archive.org/web/20170618085755/https://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/guidelines/article/go/-/abortion/ Edward Allred documentation https://bit.ly/edallred Abortion Opponents Picket Two Hospitals https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/10/06/abortion-opponents-picket-two-hospitals/8ff8a71d-ac76-4b2d-8402-7e18fc232615/ Adventist Church gets called out in 2011 by WaPo for supporting abortion while opposing Catholics because they do not support it. https://web.archive.org/web/20110127042918/onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2011/01/adventists_and_abortion.html Adventist challenges Md. official's backing of Holy Cross to build hospital in northern Montgomery https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010605951.html 1971 Abortion Guidelines posted at EGW Estate: http://drc.whiteestate.org/files/5103.pdf Dr. Peter Landless gives Dr. Gerald Winslow an award (Winslow was the "architect" of the pro-abortion 1992 guidelines) https://web.archive.org/web/20210129065844/https://adventistbioethics.org/adventist-bioethics-conference/2019-adventist-bioethics-conference Pew Research https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/03/a-closer-look-at-seventh-day-adventists-in-america/ https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/religious-denomination/seventh-day-adventist/ http://pewrsr.ch/39IwmKY Amidst Growing Criticism Adventist Church is Revisiting Abortion Position https://spectrummagazine.org/news/amidst-growing-criticism-adventist-church-revisiting-abortion-position/ Adventist Church works to clarify its stance on abortion https://adventist.news/news/adventist-church-works-to-clarify-its-stance-on-abortion “How the Evangelical Church Awoke to the Abortion Issue” https://www.reformation21.org/articles/how-the-evangelical-church-awoke-to-the-abortion-issue-the-convergent-labors-of.php Adventist Leadership at General Conference file amicus brief with Supreme Court defending legalized abortion http://www.hewantsfruit.com/blog/adventist-leadership-at-general-conference-file-amicus-brief-with-supreme-court-defending-legalized-abortion Edward Allred performing abortion at 10:17 of silent scream video https://youtu.be/dEZGzvoASW4?t=617 Graphic video partial birth abortion https://web.archive.org/web/20170801070709/http://www.mrctv.org/videos/warning-graphic-partial-birth-abortion-filmed The 2020 deleted protocol of the General Conference Health Ministries. (Also attached as a document to this blog post, see below) https://bit.ly/3bLVxeR
The NAD PARL department has published a policy manual explicitly claiming that Caeser and the governmemt have a God given legitimate authority to regulate civil society. This of course is a contradiction to the claim that abortion is a religious freedom. Quote "That civil government is ordained by God; that its divinely appointed function is to protect individuals in the legitimate exercise of their rights" https://www.religiousliberty.info/local-church-religious-liberty-manual.pdf Religious News Service statement by NAD President Neal Wilson Tuesday, March 17, 1970 PAGE -16- MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD STANCE ON ABORTION SEEN BY ADVENTIST By Religious News Service (3-17-70) PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) -- Neal C. Wilson, president of the North American Section of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, predicted here that when the denomination meets at Atlantic City in June it will steer a middle-of-the-road course on abortion. Commenting on the recent law easing abortion in Hawaii, reputedly the most liberal in the U.S., Mr. Wilson said he was sure other states would follow its lead. Admitting that Seventh-day Adventists have not delved into the abortion controversy as have other denominations, Mr. Wilson added that "we are not unmindful of social problems and our responsibilities to meet them." (more) -17- TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1970 He said the denomination would have a difficult time assuming a hard-and-fast position, since it is active in 220 different countries. "The Church deplores anything that would contribute to declining morals and would steer away from anything which would encourage promiscuousness, "he said. "Therefore, we would not feel it our responsibility to promote laws to legalize abortion... nor oppose then. "Though we walk the fence, Seventh-Day Adventists lean towards abortion rather than against it. Because we realize we are confronted by big problems of hunger and overpopulation, we do not oppose family planning and appropriate endeavors to control population." He said that Adventists have no position against sterilization and might favor abortion in some instances (rape, or mental or physical illnesses in the mother or in cases of probable severe illness in the fetus). But, he added, the Church would resist any abortion program that encouraged sexual promiscuousness or didn't demand consultation by approved medical authorities. -0- PDF copy of Neal Wilson's statement here:
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MISC LINKS:www.youtube.com/@nicsamojluk6734/videoswww.youtube.com/watch?v=KuBq_3gdc-I&t=1278sGC Session in 1930 sends memorial favoring temperance legislation to USA President Hoover. Found on page 237 (page 13 of PDF) here https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH19300619-V107-36.pdf "We trust that the noble experiment of minimizing the 'evils of the liquor traffic by governmental regulations and prohibition under the Eighteenth Amendment may meet with success under your administration" “Globally, 73% of abortions were obtained by married women in 2010–14 compared with 27% obtained by unmarried women.” Abortion incidence between 1990 and 2014: global, regional, and subregional levels and trends Volume 388, Issue 10041p258-267July 16, 2016 Lancet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30380-4/abstract "Adventists believe that violence and capital punishment have no place within the Church. In other words, it is not the task of the Church to take human life" "we would recommend that church members do not get involved in any campaign promoting death penalty. The mission of the Church is not to promote death but to announce life and hope." https://adventistbiblicalresearch.org/articles/death-penalty-an-opinion Rape and Incest: Just 1% of All Abortions "Reporting to public health authorities could mean just telling an abortion clinie," said Mr. Johnson. "Pennsylvania used to allow funding for abortions where the pregnancy was due to rape or incest, and pro-abortion groups made it an open invitation to assert that you'd been raped if you wanted an abortion. "Last year, when the Pennsylvania Legislature modified the law to say it only covered rape or incest reported to law-enforcement authorities, the number of publicly funded abortions dropped from 35 a month to 3." https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/13/us/rape-and-incest-just-1-of-all-abortions.html “A recent survey by the Elliot Institute for Social Science Research found that 73 percent of rape victims who conceived chose to give birth to their babies. Dr. Sandra Mahkorn found in 1981 that 75-85 percent of rape victims chose to carry the baby to term” Sandra Kathleen Mahkorn, Pregnancy and Sexual Assault, in THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ABORTION 53, 58 (David Mall & Walter F. Watts eds., 1979) [hereinafter PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ABORTION]. This study was comprised of 37 women reporting to have become pregnant as a result of sexual assault. Id. David Reardon, in a study of 164 pregnant rape victims, found that 73 percent chose to carry their pregnancies to term https://thetech.com/issues/121/18 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Tech, Friday April 13, 2001, Volume 121 Number 18, Page 5, Catherine Santini Dr. Gerhard Pfandl, The Issue of Abortion https://www.perspectivedigest.org/archive/28-3/the-issue-of-abortion LLU IVF 29 children gone missing from just one patient! --- Multiply this by 30+ years! https://lomalindafertility.com/used-an-egg-donor/ Vice President Dr. Ted Hamilton 2022 Bioethics conference video: https://youtu.be/hf3fzqVdUcY PROOF: Adventist GC unites with Catholics Notes and links: https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/303-creative-llc-v-elenis/ video interview with 303 https://youtu.be/j3vyja7NKrM the amicus brief https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-476/226983/20220602150934854_303%20Creative%20Merits%20amici%20brief%20obo%20USCCB.pdf Adventist Church admits to supporting & providing abortion drugs, paid for by tithe money. Adventist Church 'encouraged' by Supreme Court’s ‘Hobby Lobby’ decision (by NAD) https://web.archive.org/web/20180227120847/http:/www.nadadventist.org:80/article/1073742776/news/current-newspoints/june-30-2014-adventist-church-encouraged-by-court-s-hobby-lobby-decision https://adventist.news/news/adventist-church-encouraged-by-supreme-courts-hobby-lobby-decision https://web.archive.org/web/20250121011911/https://old1.adventistreview.org/news/adventist-church-encouraged-by-courts-hobby-lobby-decision/ 404 https://adventistreview.org/the-adventist-church-and-the-hobby-lobby-decision https://web.archive.org/web/20170603073738/https://adventistreview.org/the-adventist-church-and-the-hobby-lobby-decision "it does NOT close the door" President Jackson admits Section (6) is loophole for abortion 2019 Year-end Meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuBq_3gdc-I&t=1278s Adventist leaders say members "are being led astray by Evangelical narratives", church in danger, but admit pioneers opposed USA government, “abolition” opposed slavery, defended the defenseless “least of these” etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-mU0w-z8sE Ted Wilson called this man a spineless "Coward"! "he had no backbone" https://web.archive.org/web/20171006065051/https://adventistreview.org/church-news/story4445-%E2%80%98stand-for-the-right%E2%80%99 Nic Samojluk websites: https://adventlifebooks.wordpress.com/ https://adventlifebooks.wordpress.com/murder-in-paradise/ https://adventlife.wordpress.com/ Nic's Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@nicsamojluk6734/videos Nic's Disqus comments here https://disqus.com/by/nicsamojluk/ Loma Linda University discussion about partial birth abortion https://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/update/article/1048/&path_info=v12_n4_December_1996.pdf Clifford Goldstein publishes article in Liberty arguing that legislation against abortion is not a violation of the Establishment Clause. See pages 30-31 in January/February 1991 issue here: https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/LibM/LibM19990101-V94-01.pdf This is odd as Goldstein as editor ran articles attacking Dobson, Falwell, etc. as enemies of a woman's right to abortion https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/LibM/LibM19940201-V89-02.pdf Dobson was allowed to respond here https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/LibM/LibM19940501-V89-05.pdf Why spend time in prayer and fasting? Because victory tastes better than food.
Answers to prayer are more satisfying than a good meal. In 1930 the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church took place in San Francisco, California where they encouraged "our members to give hearty support to the upholding of prohibition; and that we recognize and emphasize the great contribution of prohibition to the general welfare and safety of society." They also sent a memorial to United States President Herbert Hoover supporting temperance legislation: Memorial to President Hoover To His Excellency, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States: GREETINGS: The Seventh-day Adventists, assembled in a World Convention in San Francisco, California, May 28 to June 12, 1930, hereby send our heartfelt greetings to Your Excellency, hoping and praying that the great ideals of equal justice, equal opportunity, ordered liberty, popular government, and freedom of conscience in religious matters, so nobly expressed in your recent public utterances, may prevail toward all men, in the great Republic of which you are President. We trust that the noble experiment of minimizing the evils of the liquor traffic by governmental regulations and prohibition under the Eighteenth Amendment may meet with success under your administration; and we are glad to inform you that every Seventh-day Adventist in the world is pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating beverages, and to the task of making this a better and safer world to live in through the peaceable means of public education and enlightenment, and by the preaching of the gospel of love, peace, and good will toward all men. We further hope and pray, that the great fundamental principles of the total separation of church and state, of civil and religious liberty, of freedom of speech and of the press, of the natural and inalienable rights of men and of the equality of all men, irrespective of their religion, before the civil law and the bar of justice, which you have pledged yourself to uphold and maintain, may continue to serve the rest of the world as a beacon light, so that all men everywhere may enjoy the peace, prosperity, and blessings of universal liberty to which they are entitled 'by nature and nature's God. We earnestly pray that the Supreme Lawgiver and Ruler of the universe, who has ordained the state to function in civil affairs only, may continue to guide you in wisdom and judgment, and in every measure that may be worthy of His blessing, and establish more firmly the general welfare and prosperity of society; and the essential justice, liberty, and happiness of all the people of the Great American Commonwealth. Published in the Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, June 19, 1930 pages 237-238, https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH19300619-V107-36.pdf In 1986 the state of Missouri enacted anti-abortion legislation with a preamble indicating that the life of each human being begins at conception. The statutes were challenged and eventually the legal fight made it's way to the Supreme Court in the case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. The name Webster comes from William L. Webster who was the attorney general for Missouri. When the case came before SCOTUS the legal counsel for the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church filed an amicus brief arguing in favor of legalized abortion claiming that statutes to protect children from violence "violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment because they place the imprimatur of the state upon a particular sectarian belief." (page 28) Fact: Counsel of Record was Mr. Robert W. Nixon Fact: Nixon listed his address as 6930 Carroll Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912, the address used by General Conference official departments Fact: The brief was filed March 30, 1989 Fact: Robert Nixon is listed in the official Adventist Church 1989 yearbook as official legal counsel for the GC here (page 28) https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Yearbooks/YB1989.pdf
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