SBC leader compares personhood movement to abolition

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) – The Southern Baptist Convention’s top
ethics leader compared an upcoming vote on Mississippi’s proposed
personhood amendment to the abolition of slavery.

“If we’re
going to be a civilized society, we need to extend to unborn children,
from the moment of conception forward, the protections of life just as
we once had to extend the protections of the law to those that were held
in bondage,” Richard Land, head of the SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty
Commission, said on his weekly radio program Nov. 5. 

In an e-mail alert Nov. 4, Land threw his support behind a Nov. 8
ballot initiative to legally define “persons” as meaning from the moment
of conception, according to Baptist Press.