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SBC 2024 preview: How to navigate this year’s annual meeting in Indy

Messengers vote during the second session of the 2023 Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans. (Photo credit: Tanner Cade)

SBC 2024 preview: How to navigate this year’s annual meeting in Indy

May 22, 2024

By The Baptist Paper If you’re a Southern Baptist who loves the business session of meetings, then buckle up for this year’s SBC Annual Meeting…

Southern Baptist baptisms and attendance grow, membership decline slows

Southern Baptist baptisms and attendance grow, membership decline slows

May 8, 2024

SBC’s Cooperation Group releases recommendations

SBC’s Cooperation Group releases recommendations

May 6, 2024

Okla. Disaster Relief in assessment stage after deadly Midwest tornadoes

A representative from Sulphur, Oklahoma, meets with Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers Elaine and Steve Crawford to assess recovery and response after an April 26 deadly tornado outbreak. (Photo credit: Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief)

Okla. Disaster Relief in assessment stage after deadly Midwest tornadoes

April 30, 2024

New CP promotion approach emerging, top givers say

New CP promotion approach emerging, top givers say

April 22, 2024

Trump, pro-life leaders at
odds in recent developments
NASHVILLE (BP) — The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission released a letter Jan. 16 calling for President Trump’s action on recent issues that have brought friction between the pro-life movement and an administration historically supportive of it. Trump’s terms in the White House have been consequential for the pro-life movement, to say the least. Shortly after taking office last year, he enforced the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal funding of abortions. He reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy. Perhaps most of all, the appointment of three pro-life Supreme Court justices in his first term led to the overturning of Roe v Wade. Last week, however, the president said conservative Republicans need to be “flexible” regarding Hyde during across-the-aisle negotiations over health care. Hyde has factored in debates on Affordable Care Act subsidies that expired last year. Conservatives, of course, didn’t like the idea, which led the White House to walk back the president’s comments. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved another generic abortion drug last fall. Chemical abortions account for 63 percent of all abortions, per a 2023 study by the Guttmacher Institute. This week, it was revealed that the Department of Health and Human Services quietly released tens of millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood through Title X that had been withheld since last spring as part of a move by lawmakers to defund abortion providers for at least one year. Trump told reporters he was unaware of those disbursements. Hollingsworth described the Hyde Amendment as “not up for debate.”