American Council of Christian Churches
84th Annual Convention, October 21-23, 2025
Bible Presbyterian Church of Charlotte, NC
Resolution on Medication Abortion
Christians rejoiced on June 24, 2022, when the Supreme Court, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturned Roe v. Wade – its 1973 ruling legalizing abortion throughout the United States. Bible-believers continued to rejoice as many states enforced or enacted laws shutting down abortion clinics within their borders.
In spite of Dobbs and the growing number of state laws banning or limiting abortions, the number of abortions in America is not decreasing.[1] The prime reason for this lack of decline is the increase of medication abortions. In 2023, nearly two-thirds of all abortions were medication abortions.[2]
Typically, medication abortion, also known as “the abortion pill,” utilizes two pills, Mifepristone and Misoprostol, to end a first-trimester pregnancy. Mifepristone stops pregnancy from progressing, while Misoprostol prompts the premature birthing process. Planned Parenthood’s website vividly describes the moment a preborn baby is expelled from his mother’s womb: “The pregnancy itself is very small — at 8 weeks, an embryo is about ¼ to ½ inch long. You may not see it when it comes out, especially if you’re less than 8 weeks pregnant. The cramping and bleeding can last for several hours. Most people finish passing the pregnancy tissue in 4-5 hours.”[3] This procedure usually takes place in the privacy of the mother’s home.
Such a sterile, clinical description disgusts Christians who know that this “embryo,” described by Planned Parenthood as “pregnancy tissue,” is a human life created in the image of God (Gen. 1:26, 27). The Psalmist David celebrates the prenatal existence as he prays in Ps. 139:13-16, “Thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.” Medication abortions, just like procedural abortions that take place inside brick-and-mortar clinics, are murder.
Due to the present lack of federal regulation, “the abortion pill” can be mailed to women, even women who live inside states that ban procedural abortions. Negating the gains made by the Dobbs decision, medication abortion furthers the evil one’s plan “to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” (John 10:10).
Therefore, the American Council of Christian Churches at its 84th annual convention, October 21-23, 2025, at Bible Presbyterian Church of Charlotte, NC, resolves to raise awareness of medication abortion, express its opposition to medical abortion to political leaders, and pray for the heinous procedure to end. The ACCC calls on states to outlaw and crack down on medication abortion, and it urges the federal government to pass or enforce legislation which does not allow abortifacients to be distributed through either the postal service or other carriers.[4] The fight for unborn lives continues, though the battle lines have shifted, and the ACCC remains engaged in this war for life until the basic human rights possessed by every child, born or preborn, are protected throughout the United States of America.
[1]“Monthly Abortion Provision Study” (guttmacher.org, 2025).
[2]Rachel K. Jones and Amy Friedrich-Karnik, “Medication Abortion Accounted for 63% of All US Abortions in 2023—An Increase from 53% in 2020” (guttmacher.org, March 2024).
[3]“How does the abortion pill work?” (plannedparenthood.org, 2025).
[4]The 1873 Comstock Act has never been repealed, and it “made it a federal offense to transport by mail or other common carriers (which today would include UPS and FedEx), ‘obscene’ materials like pornography, contraceptives, information about contraceptives, and any article, instrument, substance, device, drug, medicine, or other thing that can be used to produce an abortion.” Annalies Winny, “The Threat to Abortion Rights You Haven’t Heard Of” (publichealth.jhu.edu, 5/31/2024).
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