Southern Baptists Want Complete Abortion Ban

Southern Baptists passed a sweeping resolution on abolishing abortion, one that blasts "traditional pro-life laws" and "incremental, regulatory guidelines." The resolution, which is nonbinding, marks a shift in the formally held viewpoint of the convention, whose public policy arm has advocated for restrictions on abortion. Instead, this resolution — which was not proposed through regular means at the commission, but added on by a messenger with support of others — argues for the immediate abolition of abortion, not laws to restrict abortion. The resolution was amended to add the word "alone" to the phrase "RESOLVED, that we will not embrace an incremental approach alone to ending abortion," but still contains language saying "traditional pro-life laws … appallingly have established incremental, regulatory guidelines for when, where, why, and how to obtain legal abortion of innocent preborn children." Read more...

 


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