Resources on Abortion
Last week, writer Katelyn Beaty wrote an article at RNS arguing that the politics of ending abortion are less important than the politics of reducing abortion. There is much to commend in Beaty's article. I especially appreciate her taking a whole-life... Continue...
What just happened? The Supreme Court ruled today on National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, a case regarding a California law that threatened to shut down pregnancy resource centers serving women... Continue...
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 18, 2018—Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, commented on reports that the Trump administration will announce today its intent to propose a rule to reinstate Title X regulations that would... Continue...
What just happened? Today, President Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services will announce its intent to propose a new rule to reinstate Title X regulations that separate taxpayer dollars from funding abortion. According to the White House, HHS will... Continue...
In the summer of 1998, a friend and I spent an evening together. A few weeks later she told me she was pregnant, and it was mine. Neither of us expected it, and neither of us felt ready to raise... Continue...
Southern Baptists affirm that every human is created in the image of God. As stated in a 2015 resolution of the Southern Baptist Convention, the Bible “clearly and consistently affirms that human life is formed by God in His image and is... Continue...
The ERLC supports a plan to defund and redirect—defund Planned Parenthood and redirect those funds to community health clinics. Alliance Defending Freedom has compiled a stunning report comparing community health clinics with Planned Parenthood locations: 13,540 federally qualified health clinics... Continue...
Southern Baptists strongly affirm the sanctity of human life, at every stage of life. The Baptist Faith and Message (2000), based on Ps. 127:3, affirms “children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord” (Psalm... Continue...
In The Well and the Shallows, G.K. Chesterton clearly discerned the eugenic motivation that spawned the birth control movement of his day. Chesterton wrote that “birth control” was an intentional misnomer, in that the “proceeding . . . does not... Continue...
What just happened? The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36). This GOP-backed legislation is based on compelling evidence that unborn babies experience pain by 20 weeks gestation. The bill would make... Continue...