Short of Dr. Russell Moore, the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, there are virtually no evangelical voices speaking to broader life issues beyond abortion in our “brave new world.” Christians of all denominations need to refine, articulate, and live out their beliefs about life, sexuality, and marriage. Abortion is crucially important, but it is not the only threat to fragile human life. These concerns are not merely about old fashioned morality, or imposing beliefs on others, but about the weighty and delicate matter of human existence.

Over the past two years, a wave of state level abortion legislation has resulted in a record number of clinics closures and a sense that the tide may be turning on abortion. Public opinion, according to a recent poll, favors at least some restrictions on abortion, with the majority of Americans (55 percent) supporting restrictions on abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy. Only 30 percent support unrestricted legal abortion up to 24 weeks (the default set by Roe v. Wade). Evangelicals are the most supportive of these new restrictions, with 65 percent of “born again evangelicals” favoring restrictions on abortion at twenty weeks as opposed to 24 weeks, if forced to choose between the two options.
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