Abolitionist Rising recently complied some of the testimony from SBC pastors and leaders for why legislation to abolish abortion should not be brought to the floor for a vote, and it’s some of the worst we’ve ever seen in their efforts to free women from culpability for murdering their children, including blaming pregnancy hormones. This article is adapted from their X thread.
This pastor and Resolutions Committee member says “We would have no set of parameters in the legal system” to deal with co-conspirators. Where on earth do they get this stuff? Every state has laws dealing with co-conspirators to crimes.
He argues, “there is a concern that women who had miscarriages would be falsely accused.” What is this? A NARAL convention? Is there any other group, @fieldthigpen, that you think should be stripped of protection because of possible false accusations? Or just the preborn?
Hall starts by nonsensically claiming that abolishing abortion would lead to more abortions than not abolishing it, and then gives no justification for the claim. These people have no shame, nor do they have any brains.
Hall goes further than most 2nd victim narrative pro-lifers by arguing that women are not only victims of abortion but also of the consensual sex they engage in! “The male who first convinces a young woman to give up her purity makes her a victim.”
Hall suggests that womens desires to murder their baby are not entirely their fault, because “All women in the first trimester are undergoing tremendous hormonal changes that have a severe impact on their decision-making.”
He then argues that abolishing abortion would lead to 1-in-4 women being behind bars. That’s true of how many women have abortions when it’s legal, but if it was treated as murder, nowhere near 1-in-4 would be having abortions. That’s one reason we must abolish it.
Hall leans heavily on the claim that 70% of aborting women are coerced. The real stat is the 64% “felt pressure.” Pro-lifers often equivocate between pressure (which could be anything) and legally defined coercion. Likely less than 1% of abortions involve actual coercion.
Hall closes by pointing to Jesus showing mercy to the woman at the well, saying that it teaches us that we can’t prosecute women who murder children. Would Hall like to apply this to post-natal child-murder? If not, why does he feel comfortable applying it to the preborn?
As further evidence that Hall is way out of his depth, he testified last year IN FAVOR of the bill to abolish abortion (12:15 mark of this video). Hall is a double-minded feminist who has no business leading any public policy organization.
Then there are the abolitionists:
Presumably, Brian, John, and company will be back next year with another abolitionist resolution and the LA pro-life Baptists will expose themselves as unbiblical, unthinking supporters of self-managed abortion once again.
I’d say “let’s watch and see if they come up with better arguments, but there really aren’t any. Their position is rooted in lies and the spirit of the age. They need to repent. That’s all there is to it. Hopefully they see this and are convicted.
Our opponents often have institutional control, but they aren’t serious people with serious arguments.
