The Southern Baptist Convention has finally taken aim at one of the most overlooked, under-preached evils in the modern church… chemical abortion. For years, many professing Christians have quietly participated in this silent slaughter, regularly using birth control pills and so-called emergency contraception with abortive effects, all while their pastors stand mute behind the pulpit, unwilling to jeopardize their popularity by telling the truth.

The resolution to be considered at the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting, titled “On Standing Against the Moral Evils and Medical Dangers of Chemical Abortion Pills,” is, to its credit, a pretty strong document. It pulls back the curtain on a practice that too many churches have conveniently ignored for far too long. It calls chemical abortion a spiritual, physical, and societal scourge and rightly grieves the destruction of life caused by these drugs.

It even demands the federal government to revoke approval of mifepristone and misoprostol, the abortion industry’s chemical hitmen.

“We grieve the continued destruction of preborn lives through chemical abortion and condemn the exploitation of women by an abortion industry increasingly reliant on dangerous drugs and deceptive practices,” the resolution states.

Deceptive indeed. Because the things is that while this resolution speaks strongly against the drugs and the industry behind them, it does what nearly every other supposedly “pro-life” statement does—it quietly tiptoes around the moral agency of the women choosing to ingest these death pills.

Now, to be fair, it doesn’t explicitly remove that agency. It doesn’t go so far as to canonize women as wholly blameless victims. But it sure does work overtime to obfuscate. Women are “denied full, truthful, and compassionate information.” They are endangered by “impersonal and unsafe means like telehealth and mail-order services.” They are subjected to a system that can be “easily misused or abused.”

And so we get the familiar, paternalistic narrative. Women who abort their children aren’t rebels against God, they are confused lambs led astray by Big Pharma wolves. It implies that they cannot be expected to fully comprehend the horror of what they’re doing because the system is just…so…deceptive.

Are we really to believe that these women—many of them college-educated, internet-savvy, and equipped with more information than any generation in human history—are unable to connect the dots between swallowing poison and murdering their unborn child?

“Mifepristone works by blocking the hormone progesterone, depriving the developing baby of necessary nourishment, followed by misoprostol, which induces contractions to expel the deceased child.” The resolution says this—and rightly so. But then why the hesitancy to apply the word “murder” where it belongs? If the act is murderous, should the actor not be held to account?

No, the resolution never once calls for the criminalization of the women who willingly participate in this ritual of death. It goes after the drug manufacturers, the telehealth platforms, the FDA, and the shipping services—but never the woman who hits the order button or takes the pill. This is its weak point.

And let me be blunt, I suspect the reason for this is painfully political. If this resolution had included clear language about holding women legally accountable for killing their unborn children, it wouldn’t have stood a chance. It would’ve been DOA on the convention floor, drowned in a tsunami of sob stories and emotionally manipulative rhetoric. And so, the writers settled for something more “passable.”

But even with that caveat, this resolution marks a change in the minds of Southern Baptists. It brings chemical abortion—the quiet killer, the pharmacist’s abortion, the bathroom genocide—into the light. And that’s no small thing.

“We urge the United States Congress and state legislatures to pass laws banning the manufacture, sale, distribution, and mailing of chemical abortion drugs,” it reads. That souns like more than just virtue-signaling. It sounds like a loaded demand for legislative obliteration.

And praise God for that.

And here’s the part most churches won’t touch… many women in the pews are complicit. They pop Plan B like candy. They refill their birth control prescriptions with zero regard for the abortifacient properties. They shrug off the possible destruction of fertilized embryos as a necessary convenience. It’s time the Church stops pretending this is just a problem “out there.”

“We call on those considering chemical abortion to pursue alternative solutions which protect and promote life.” That line—gentle, polite, almost antiseptic in its phrasing—is the SBC’s olive branch. But what those women really need isn’t an alternative. They need repentance.

The resolution is good. But it could have been great. It could have been bolder, sharper, and uncompromising. It could have declared, without caveat, that the woman who chemically kills her child is guilty before God and deserves justice under the law.

Instead, it lingers in the safe zone, condemning the practice and the profiteers but leaving the participants cloaked in ambiguity.

Still, we give thanks. For the first time in a long time, the SBC is saying what should have been said years ago. Chemical abortion is murder. It is wicked. It must be abolished.

If this passes with less than 100 percent of the vote, the SBC has a real problem on its hands.

Here’s the resolution in full: https://sbcannualmeeting.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Proposed-Resolutions.pdf