Sanctity of Life

NASHVILLE (BP) – When Evan Lenow raises the issue of contraception in his college and seminary ethics classes, it is the first time most students have considered that a married couple’s efforts to prevent pregnancy might be morally problematic.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Psalm 139 Project, a pro-life ministry of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), has donated an ultrasound machine to a pregnancy resource center in Anchorage, in partnership with the Alaska Baptist Resource Network and the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The years-long efforts of New Jersey’s attorney general to force crisis pregnancy centers to provide internal documents as well as donors’ personal information is unconstitutional and the latest case of pro-life groups being persecuted for their beliefs, said attorneys for Alliance Defending Freedom on Aug. 22. 

U.S. district court rules against Little Sisters of the Poor; Costco will not sell abortion pill.

CHIANG MAI, Thailand – Pregnant and 17. Olive was depressed and scared. Being a teenage mom wasn’t what she envisioned for her life. But maybe being a teenage mother didn’t have to be the trajectory of her life. It could all be over with a trip to a clinic, and no one would know. Except her sister and family knew. And they wanted her to keep the baby. 

FORT WORTH (BP) -- Prestonwood Baptist Church and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary formally marked the opening of Prestonwood Pregnancy Center during a March 26 ribbon-cutting ceremony on the seminary’s Fort Worth campus.

The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention has initiated a strategic effort to leverage the current Republican majorities in Congress and the executive branch to defund Planned Parenthood by eliminating the organization’s federal funding. The ERLC is mobilizing Southern Baptists to achieve this objective during the ongoing congressional reconciliation process, through various means, including a public sign-on letter.

WASHINGTON (BP) – Evangelical ethicists are urging policymakers to tap the brakes on in vitro fertilization (IVF) expansion despite an executive order by President Donald Trump and widespread enthusiasm for the practice.

NASHVILLE (BP) — Southern Baptists wishing to provide direct input on issues addressed by the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission may do so over the next six months through a survey released by the entity.

For more than half a century, pro-life activists have shown up by the tens of thousands on the national mall in Washington to argue for the sanctity of life. They were joined this time by a vice president who wasn’t yet born when Roe v. Wade came down in 1973. J.D. Vance was not the first VP to speak at the March. Mike Pence, President Trump’s first-term wingman, made regular appearances as a long-time ally of the pro-life movement.