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Asking Congress to Defund Planned Parenthood

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Will you add your voice to ask Congress to defund Planned Parenthood? The ERLC is calling on legislators to take concrete steps in a reconciliation bill to ensure that no funds are allocated to Planned Parenthood or its affiliates.

Southern Baptists affirm the sanctity of every human life, including the preborn. Scripture testifies that every person is made in the image of God (Gen. 1:27) and that life begins at conception (Psa. 139:13-16). The Baptist Faith and Message proclaims that children, from the moment of conception, are “a blessing and heritage from the Lord.” As followers of Christ, we must advocate for protecting vulnerable preborn lives and oppose organizations and practices that undermine the value of life.

Planned Parenthood’s predatory, deceptive, and destructive practices are destroying preborn lives at the expense of the American taxpayer.

Will you add your voice in asking Congress to defund Planned Parenthood?

Dear Member of Congress:

As you begin the important debate about budget reconciliation, we, as Southern Baptists and Christians, are making a simple request of you: defund Planned Parenthood.

For too long, taxpayer dollars, $700 million last year alone, have been given to this organization that profits from ending life. It is outrageous that promises that have been made for years now have never been turned into real results.

End this egregious assault on the consciences of millions of pro-life Americans that has resulted in the unconscionable loss of millions of preborn sons and daughters at the hands of this organization. It’s time to take this significant step toward establishing a true culture of life. Now is the time to defund Planned Parenthood.

See Southern Baptist Convention resolutions from 2017, 2021, and 2022.

Asking Congress to Defund Planned Parenthood

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Church Resources

We’ve heard from Southern Baptist churches around the country that are adding their voices in support of defunding Planned Parenthood. Congress is paying attention to the growing number of names. Here are printable and digital resources for your church to add more voices to this letter.

Completed sign-up sheets can be emailed to [email protected].

Initial Signers

The following Southern Baptist leaders have added their names in joint support of this letter.

Brent Leatherwood
President
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

Clint Pressley
President
Southern Baptist Convention

Richard Land
President Emeritus
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

Scott Foshie
Board Chairman
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission

Danny Akin
President
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Jason K. Allen
President
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Paul Chitwood
President
International Mission Board

James Dew
President
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

David Dockery
President
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Kevin Ezell
President
North American Mission Board

Adam Groza
President
Gateway Seminary

Jeff Iorg
President
Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee

R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
President
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Bart Barber
Former President
Southern Baptist Convention

Ronnie Floyd
Former President
Southern Baptist Convention

Jack Graham
Former President
Southern Baptist Convention

J.D. Greear
Former President
Southern Baptist Convention

Ed Litton
Former President
Southern Baptist Convention

James Merritt
Former President
Southern Baptist Convention

Randy Adams
Executive Director
Northwest Baptist Convention

Brian Autry
Executive Director
Southern Baptist Convention of Virginia

Randy Covington
Executive Director
Alaska Baptist Resource Network

Randy C. Davis
President and Executive Director
Tennessee Baptist Mission Board

Barrett Duke
Executive Director, Montana Southern Baptist Convention
Research Fellow, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

Leo Endel
Executive Director
Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention

Todd Fisher
Executive Director
Oklahoma Baptists

Wes Fowler
Executive Director
Missouri Baptist Convention

Thomas Hammond
Executive Director
Georgia Baptist Mission Board

Stephen Horn
Executive Director
Louisiana Baptist Convention

David Johnson
Executive Director
Arizona Mission Network of Southern Baptists

Rick Lance
Executive Director
Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions

Robert Lee
Executive Director
Utah Idaho Southern Baptist Convention

Nathan Lorick
Executive Director
Southern Baptists of Texas Convention

Tim Lubinus
Executive Director
Baptist Convention of Iowa

Fred MacDonald
Executive Director
Dakota Baptist Convention

Shawn Parker
Executive Director
Mississippi Baptist Convention Board

Pete Ramirez
Executive Director
California Southern Baptist Convention

Eric Ramsey
Executive Director
West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists

Terry Robertson
Executive Director
Baptist Convention of New York

Stephen Rummage
Executive Director
Florida Baptist Convention

Rondie Taylor
Executive Director
Wyoming Southern Baptist Mission Network

Todd Unzicker
Executive Director
Baptist State Convention of North Carolina

Tony Wolfe
Executive Director
South Carolina Baptist Convention

Miles Mullin
Vice President and Chief of Staff
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

Gregg Allison
Senior Fellow, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Professor of Christian Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Nathan Finn
Senior Fellow, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Professor of Faith and Culture, North Greenville University

RaShan Frost
Director of Research and Senior Fellow
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

Jason Thacker
Senior Fellow, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Boyce College

Hunter Baker
Research Fellow, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Provost and Dean of Faculty, Union University

Don Buckley
Research Fellow
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

Kristen Ferguson
Research Fellow, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Vice President of Enrollment and Student Services, Gateway Seminary

Thomas Kidd
Research Fellow, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Yeats Chair of Baptist Studies, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Evan Lenow
Research Fellow
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

Mark Liederbach
Research Fellow, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Senior Professor of Ethics, Theology, and Culture, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Ken Magnuson
Research Fellow, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Professor of Christian Ethics, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Lilly Park
Research Fellow
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

Benjamin Quinn
Research Fellow, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Associate Professor of Theology, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Jeffrey Riley
Research Fellow, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Professor of Ethics, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

Jacob Shatzer
Research Fellow, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Provost, Union University

Andrew Spencer
Research Fellow
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

Ryan Tucker
Research Fellow
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

John D. Wilsey
Research Fellow
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

Malcolm Yarnell
Research Fellow
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission



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