Abortion

ELCA Church Council Action CC97.04.31

Passed by the 1997 ELCA Church Council.

Resolved
To adopt the amendment to the ELCA Medical and Dental Benefits Plan printed in Agenda/MINUTES Exhibit J, Part 1b, which would exclude coverage of late-term abortions, except when the life of the mother is threatened or when the fetus has lethal fetal abnormalities indicating that death is imminent.