Abortion

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Just a few hours after passing Missouri constitutional Amendment 3, abortion industry lawyers filed a lawsuit in Kansas City, asserting their new fundamental right to make money by providing abortions in Missouri.

SHREVEPORT, La. – Louisiana Baptists’ 2024 Committee on Resolutions reported at the convention’s 2024 annual meeting that it had declined to recommend a resolution it had received, “The Abolition of Self-Managed Abortion in Louisiana,” from Brian Gunter, a messenger and pastor with First Baptist Church, Livingston.

NEW YORK (BP) -- With Proposal 1, New York enshrined abortion rights in the state’s constitution without even mentioning the word.

As results continue to come in, here are three additional takeaways about the election and how the results are likely to affect issues of life, religious liberty and marriage and family.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Florida became the first state to defeat a pro-abortion ballot initiative when voters on Tuesday (Nov. 5) rejected Amendment 4, which would have made abortion a constitutional right.

Rugged individualism and self-reliance are highly prized traits in Montana. We agree that people should be as free as possible to make their own way in life. To succeed through your own effort is a worthy goal. If we’re being honest, though, most of us, probably all of us, have needed someone to be there for us at a crucial moment.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP) – Missouri Baptists are battling to defeat a ballot initiative that would enshrine abortion in the state’s constitution and radically alter the abortion landscape in the Show Me State.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP) – A ballot initiative in Florida would drastically loosen the state’s restrictions on abortions, according to Southern Baptist leaders and other pro-life advocates who are highly critical of the measure and are asking voters to reject it.

DORSET COUNTY, England (BP) – An Army veteran and father of three was found guilty Oct. 16 of praying silently in a large abortion buffer zone in England and fined the equivalent of $11,700, Alliance Defending Freedom UK (ADF UK) reported.

WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. Supreme Court failed to intervene this session in a dispute over whether the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) requires doctors in the pro-life state of Texas to perform abortions to stabilize patients seeking emergency room care.