The Uniting Church has broken ranks and declared its support for decriminalising abortion in NSW saying the church should “offer care” and not “stand in judgement".
Senior Sydney Catholic and Anglican clerics came out against decriminalisation, with St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral’s dean Reverend Don Richardson using Sunday Mass to declare the bill “another attack on the conscience rights of Catholics".
The bill to decriminalise abortion was introduced to the New south Wales parliament last week, the last Australian state to do so, and is currently being debated.