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ERLC President Russell Moore Responds to Planned Parenthood Congressional Testimony

ERLC President Russell Moore Responds to Planned Parenthood Congressional Testimony

WASHINGTON D.C., Sept. 28, 2015Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, responded to the testimony of Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, before the House Oversight Committee Tuesday.

“Nothing that Mrs. Richards said before Congress removes any of the deeply disturbing signs that we’ve seen pointing to an industry of human trafficking within Planned Parenthood clinics. Further, she consistently dodged important questions about the prominence of abortion in Planned Parenthood’s revenue and about Planned Parenthood’s practices toward infants who survive abortions. My prayer is that protecting the lives of babies and their mothers will soon become a more important national priority than political solidarity and corporate profit. As the committee hearing demonstrated, we have a long way to go.”

The ERLC also provided fact-checking analysis of the testimony, “available here”:https://erlc.com/article/5-facts-about-planned-parenthoods-congressional-testimony.

The Southern Baptist Convention is Americas largest Protestant denomination with more than 15.8 million members in over 46,000 churches nationwide. The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is the SBCs ethics, religious liberty and public policy agency with offices in Nashville, Tenn., and Washington, D.C.

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