The pastors and other religious groups helping pregnant people seeking abortions.
—to numb and burn out those who are disposed to care. “She wrote about how there are so many fires. The world is on fire right now, and we can’t put out all the fires,” Commeret said. “But we can find one and put out that fire. And so for me, this is my fire.”Often, when Ramsey tries to enlist faith communities to help pregnant patients get abortions, “they’re first like, ‘Wait, you want us to do?’ ” she said. “This is all groundbreaking, cutting-edge to them. And I’m like, ‘It is, and it isn’t.
There is extensive historical precedent for this kind of work. Those involved in current efforts to get patients abortions say they’ve taken inspiration from the sanctuary movement, aof congregations shielding undocumented immigrants from deportation officials, who cannot—or, due to optics, will not—breach church doors to take an immigrant into custody.
“Think of congregations as volunteer organizations that are committed to certain values,” Rev. Daniel Kanter, the senior minister and CEO of First Unitarian Church of Dallas, told me. “We share values around justice-making and service, and we’re also networked and we trust each other.”One patient arrived at the church with an escape plan in case the supposedly pro-choice church was a front for a sex-trafficking ploy.
The circumstances that bring these women together are despicable: Lawmakers are using the state’s power to force them to bear unwanted pregnancies, and without the church’s support, they could not afford to travel out of state for care. An unintended but heartening consequence of the program is that, for some patients, the community the trips fostered alleviated feelings of desperate isolation that abortion bans are designed to instill.
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