The president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is calling out a man who is telling people that he is killing babies through abortion as a “ministry.”

Dr. Willie Parker, a former medical director for Planned Parenthood, has been performing abortions (including late term abortions) at a clinic in Jackson, Mississippi.  He has been leading the fight against the state’s law requiring better health care standards for abortion clinics and for doctors to have admitting rights at hospitals if they perform abortions.

Dr. Parker claims that he is doing “abortion ministry” by killing babies for women who don’t want to become mothers.  He compares himself to the good Samaritan of the Bible and even had a newspaper feature championing his “abortion ministry.”  He said he can’t understand why people think he might not be a Christian.

“The protesters say they’re opposed to abortion because they’re Christian,” Parker explained. “It’s hard for them to accept that I do abortions because I’m a Christian.”

Southern Baptist ERLC head Russell Moore says that people question Dr. Parker as a Christian because he’s killing babies for profit.  He also says Parker’s claims that he’s like the “good Samaritan” are flawed at the core.

“That would be true, of course, if the Samaritan in Jesus’ story had euthanized the neighbor, to put him out of his misery. Of course, he didn’t. Instead, the Samaritan took the neighbor on as his own kin, nursing him back to health and caring for him, a picture that looks a lot like what many of the pro-life churches and organizations Parker dismisses are, in fact, doing for women in crisis and their babies,” said Moore.

“We can pray that this abortion doctor hears and receives that sort of mercy that transforms the direction and purpose of his life. We can pray for a ‘come to Jesus’ moment that puts him on the right side of the Jericho Road.”