Matthew 23:23-24 The “weightier matters of the law,” justice and mercy as well as faith.
SisterSong defines Reproductive Justice as the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.
The state of Texas has one of the worst records on maternal and infant health and mortality. This record has worsened with the state’s extreme abortion bans. Those most affected? Women of color, especially African-American women.
We support the right of each person to hold their own personal beliefs about life and abortion, yet an extreme view is behind the state’s abortion bans and these bans have resulted in life- and health-threatening risks for pregnant Texans. God wants what is best for us, yet the extremism of the anti-abortion movement has forced often dangerous pregnancies onto others, yet ongoing surveys of legislators by Project Matthew 28:20 do not reveal a reason for their belief in personhood at conception or heartbeat.
See our Fact Sheet on the Bible and Abortion
See our letter to Attorney General Ken Paxton asserting our religious freedom to assist those who are pregnant to leave the state to access abortion services.
For an excellent article on the political motivation behind Evangelicals adopting abortion as a central issue in the later 1970s, see The Real Origins of the Religious Right by religious scholar Randall Balmer.