Al Mohler Changes Position On Abortion

Al Mohler has been around for a long time in the Southern Baptist Convention and has had a tremendous impact on how the SBC got to where it is today. For better or worse, Al Mohler has had many position changes in his career relating to liberalism, feminism, homosexuality, and a stated position on Critical Race Theory. However, recently Al Mohler has changed his stance on abortion and whether a woman is morally and should be criminally culpable for it.

In April 2016, likely in response to comments made by presidential candidate Donald Trump, Al Mohler came out against the idea of criminal liability for women who murder their unborn, stating that the pro-life movement has never advocated for it. He further went on to blame men as he peddled the “second victim” narrative.

Now in March 2024, Al Mohler calls it “morally insane” to believe that women have no culpability in abortion.

“Quite frankly, I think this is an embarrassing shortfall on the part of many who call themselves pro-life, where they have just decided to exempt women seeking abortions from really any moral accountability…. That’s just not morally honest, especially in a day in which so many women, particularly in the activist community, they’re actually bragging about their abortions. They’re suggesting that women need to shout their abortions and quite frankly, they’re flaunting their abortions. So I think it’s morally insane to suggest that there is no moral culpability there, nor that the law should not recognize that with some form of criminal sanction.”

What Changed?

Al Mohler has a tendency to go with the prevailing wind. And logically the feminist “second victim” position holds no water in the face of an increasingly automated abortion industry where over 63% of abortions are self-performed.

Southern Baptist Implications

Al Mohler just took a shot at Brent Leatherwood who has vehemently opposed holding women accountable for abortion. In any case, this is good news for Southern Baptists that Al Mohler has joined the orthodox in this position.