Scientologists urged to end pregnancies?

Tuesday, June 15, 2010
GetReligion

Talk about explosive allegations: In a mammoth two-day investigative series totaling more than 10,000 words, the St. Petersburg Times reports that the Church of Scientology repeatedly pushed members of its religious order, the Sea Organization, to have abortions “for the greatest good.”

Women who declined to end pregnancies faced threats and intimidation, according to former members interviewed by the Times. In riveting front-page stories, reporters Joe Childs and Thomas Tobin methodically lay out the facts and allegations yet go out of their way to seek the church’s side of the story.

The church denies all the former members’ accounts — a fact made clear as the Times repeatedly allows space for the church’s response to specific claims. the rest