The SBC Resolution "On Abolishing Abortion" has gotten some negative feedback in the last few days. The resolution itself may be read HERE.
Thoughts?
Southern Baptist Convention’s problematic abortion resolutionDana Hall McCain said:There are two very distinct types of pro-life advocates. One type wants to end abortion, has an actual working knowledge of what that requires in our judicial and legislative systems, and uses strategic expertise to save as many lives as possible while setting the table to topple Roe v. Wade.
The other type wants to lie on the floor kicking and screaming like a child throwing a tantrum, expecting the wider world to capitulate to that. Their strategy might end abortion in Fantasy Land, but not in the United States of America.
Why We Opposed an Anti-Abortion Resolution at the Southern Baptist ConventionDenny Burk Richard Land et al said:The original resolution rejected incrementalism altogether...
Incrementalism is the idea that, while we all are working for the complete abolition of abortion, we also want to support measures to limit and curtail abortion along the way to save as many lives as we can. The sponsors of this resolution reject incrementalism because they say it gives up on the principle of the sanctity of every human life, and we ought not surrender that principle. We must protect all lives, not just some of them.
But that approach would be a little bit like Eisenhower setting the goal to capture Berlin but refusing to invade Normandy until all of France and Germany can be conquered at once.
Thoughts?