MONDAY 5 AUGUST 2019Who will win the battle for the
hearts and minds of
churchgoing Alabamians?
In the third instalment of her series, Holly Baxter meets a Presbyterian
minister in Birmingham, Alabama, who has rallied against the state’s
recent anti-abortion legislation
Pro-choice protesters at a demonstration in Montgomery in May (AFP/Getty)
Few people bar the members of her congregation might have known who the Reverend Terry Hamilton-
Poore was before the middle-aged church leader decided to take an unexpected stand against anti-abortion
legislation in her state. From an armchair in her spacious, air-conditioned office at the First Presbyterian