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SCOTUS Arguments in Dobbs: Three Abolitionist Takeaways and One Prediction
This morning, the supreme court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a case revolving around the Mississippi Gestational Age Act of 2018 which prohibited abortion in the state after 15 weeks. The law, of course, was immediately enjoined by the lawyers of a Mississippi child sacrifice center and began the process of…
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Oklahoma Baptists Pass Resolution on Abolishing Abortion!
On Tuesday, Oklahoma Baptists became the fourth Southern Baptists state convention this year to pass a resolution calling for the immediate abolition of abortion following Arkansas, South Carolina, Utah-Idaho. All of these follow the Resolution on Abolishing Abortion passed by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in June. The Oklahoma resolution reaffirmed the language passed by…
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Point of Order! How Missouri Baptists Killed the Resolution on Abolishing Abortion.
At the 2021 Missouri Baptist annual meeting, my motion to bring the Resolution on Abolishing Abortion to the floor for debate was, at best, negligently overlooked. The resolutions committee was supposed to present my motion (as well as one other motion) at the end of their resolutions report, but instead, left the stage after presenting…
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Utah/Idaho Baptist Convention Calls UT-ID Governors, Legislature to Abolish Abortion
Abolitionist momentum within the SBC continued on Friday as the Utah-Idaho Southern Baptist Convention passed the Resolution on Abolishing Abortion at their annual convention. The resolution had 79 cosigners and was based on the resolution passed at the national annual meeting, with some edits made by Idaho pastor Paul Thompson with the help of Free…
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Arkansas Baptists Pass Resolution on Abolishing Abortion at State Convention
When the Southern Baptist Convention passed the Resolution on Abolishing Abortion at their annual meeting in June, a powerful string of events was set in motion as longtime abolitionists became emboldened to push even harder for abolitionism within the convention and hundreds of pastors and SBC messengers who were previously unaware of the Abolitionist Movement…
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Depravity of the American (and Phoenix) Press: A Defense of Jeff Durbin
The serial killers of the abortion industry make up the most depraved institution in American society, followed by a number of powerful institutions which serve their interests. This would include — among many others — Hollywood, teacher’s unions, and the American press; which is, by and large, a collection of vicious, scheming calumniators who have…
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Abolitionist Perspective on the Texas Heartbeat Bill: Three Quick Observations
The Texas Heartbeat Bill is big news at the moment, as it is the first such bill banning abortion pre-viability to go into effect since Roe v. Wade. The reason the 5th circuit court and supreme court declined to give the serial killers at Whole Women’s Health the injunction they were asking for is because…
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NC House Speaker Tim Moore Pulls Tricks to Avoid Going on Record Against Abolition
For the second time, North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore has moved the bill to abolish abortion in North Carolina (NC HB158) to a different committee in response to a discharge petition being filed by the bill’s author, Representative Larry Pittman. A discharge petition is a motion to bring a bill out of committee and…
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State Rep. Bryan Slaton Refiles Texas Abolition Bill in Special Session
On June 22, Texas Governor Greg Abbott called a special session of the Texas legislature to begin on July 8. On the opening day of the session, State Rep. Bryan Slaton filed HB103, the Abolition of Abortion Through Equal Protection for All Unborn Children Act. Slaton fought valiantly for preborn children in Texas during his…
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Abolitionist Lawyer to File Amicus Brief in SCOTUS Abortion Case
In 2018, Mississippi enacted House Bill 1510 – also known as the “Gestational Age Act” – purportedly prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks gestation. The same day the act went into state law, the last remaining licensed abortion facility in the state challenged it in district court. Now, the case – Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health…
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