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
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
Ed Emmerling
Executive Director
Baptist State Convention of Michigan
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
Samuel Oliver
President
Union University
