Ecumenical Effort to Defend Life in Minnesota

Since the Minnesota Legislature passed an abortion bill that enshrined the right to abortion last year and was signed into law by Gov. Tim Waltz (D), Christians have been galvanized into action around the pro-life cause. In particular, Lutherans and Catholics are joining forces to speak up and defend human life in Minnesota.

This alliance is being fostered by Dr. Robin Goldsmith, CMA’s Midwest Regional Director and co-founder of the St. Gianna Clinic in De Pere, Wisconsin and Rev. Elliott Malm, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church. The two met at a Converging Roads Conference last year hosted by CMA local guilds. Pastor Malm became interested in the work of the St. Gianna center and the Catholic Medical Association. He invited Dr. Goldsmith to be the keynote speaker at the Speaking Up for Life in Minnesota, a Pro-Life Convocation, sponsored by the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) Minnesota South District Faribault Circuit and the LCMS Life Ministry.

Dr. Goldsmith will speak on the topic of Speaking Up for Life in the Clinic, where she will address authentic health care centered in the love of God and what that looks like in the clinic setting. The Saturday, September 21, 2024 event at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Owatonna, Minn., aims to arm Minnesotans with knowledge and information to speak up for life in their state.

“Now more than ever we need to return back to the roots of health care, back to God, where we bring God directly or indirectly into the conversation with our patients and their care,” said Dr. Goldsmith. “I’m very blessed that Pastor Malm and LCMS are interested in developing this relationship not only to support faith based medicine, but also to support the work of the Catholic Medical Association.”

In the event flyer, LCMS notes that “it has been said that ‘abortion degrades and damages everyone it touches: the baby, the mother, and the doctor.’ Contrary to what propaganda tells Americans, abortion is not health care. It is an evil, flagrant violation of the divine commandment, ‘You shall not kill. Throughout history, the moral duty of the Church has been to oppose evil, not cooperate with it or become complicit through silence.”

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