The SBC's Moral Doublespeak on Abortion

Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) presidential candidate Bart Barber argues that Southern Baptists should be celebrating a leaked majority opinion from the Supreme Court that appears to erase Roe v. Wade once and for all. However, he also indicates all is not well in the world's largest Baptist denomination, even when it comes to the topic of abortion. While Barber sees division stemming from the side of abortion abolitionists, Southern Baptists almost certainly don't see things the same way. Southern Baptists face no small amount of criticism for their place in having supported pro-life presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump, who famously appointed conservative judges throughout the United States of America, including several justices to the Supreme Court. And so it may come as a surprise to see the SBC split over something as cut-and-dried as abortion, but some Southern Baptists are recoiling from the necessary implications of what it means to say that abortion is the intentional, unjustified taking of a human life (i.e., murder).