During a press conference Wednesday afternoon (June 12), members of the Committee on Resolutions spoke after eight resolutions were adopted by messengers to the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting.
“To truly understand and attack the problem of crippling decline looming large over the future of the SBC will require Southern Baptists to embrace two radical steps,” says Chuck Kelley, president emeritus of New Orleans Seminary.
In the wake of the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the issue of abortion rights has taken center stage in state-level politics, leading to various abortion-related state ballot initiat
The situation remains complex, with ongoing negotiations and tensions as both parties hold firm to their positions. Meanwhile, Southern Baptists have been actively engaged in providing aid and relief.
In February 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a ruling in favor of parents who had utilized in vitro fertilization (IVF) and had their embryos dropped and destroyed at the fertility clinic.
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“This ruling has sent shock waves throughout the country, including the pro-life movement which has historically been torn over the ethics of IVF,’ says Jason Thacker.
“The heroes of the pro-life movement are the men and women working in pregnancy care centers across this nation day after day, meeting women with unplanned pregnancies at the point of their need …”
