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Alabama State Rep. Paul Lee has killed House Bill 518, which would abolish abortion in Alabama, by refusing to give the bill a public hearing. House Bill 518, also known as the Alabama Prenatal Equal Protection Act, was the only bill this session that would have established equal protection of the laws for preborn babies. Alabama law still allows for self-induced abortions, meaning that thousands of babies are legally murdered every single year by their own mothers. But rather than obeying God by addressing this loophole, Rep. Lee, who serves as chairman of the Alabama House Health Committee, refused to hear House Bill 518. With only a few days left in the Alabama legislative session, Rep. Lee has effectively killed the only proposal in his state that would truly abolish abortion. This is just the latest example of a Pro-Life Republican and professing Christian claiming to serve God and yet refusing to protect His most innocent image-bearers. In conservative states like Alabama, the pro-abortion Democrats have no power to keep abortion legal. But they do not even have to try. They trust the Pro-Life Republicans to keep abortion legal for them. Rep. Lee will one day stand before the risen and ascended King Jesus, and he will have to offer an account of how he stewarded his authority as a civil magistrate. But he has so far abdicated his duty to protect preborn babies from murder and to abolish abortion. Pray with us that he would repent, or that God would fill his seat with a man who has the conviction to end legalized child sacrifice in Alabama.