How evangelical women in Texas are mobilizing for a future without abortion

A maternity ranch is born

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ARGYLE, Tex. — The vision had come as she was driving home from the Kroger, and it was so sudden and fully formed that Aubrey Schlackman began to tell people that “it was like God placed it in my head.”

This was last year, a time when abortion was still widely available in Texas and Aubrey was one more young mother joining the midmorning traffic along Farm to Market 407 in the growing suburbs north of Dallas. She passed the Starbucks. She passed the AT&T store. She was thinking about getting her two young boys down for a nap when she reached a pleasant stretch of land bordered by a long split-rail fence, and this is when the idea came.

“A maternity ranch,” she thought, and she could practically see it through her windshield.

It would be a place for struggling pregnant women who decide to have their babies instead of having abortions, a Christian haven where women could live stress-free during their newborn’s first year of life. It would have individual cottages for mothers. “Host homes” for couples who would model healthy marriages. A communal barn for meals. Bible study. The whole plan was clear, and when she told her husband later that night, he said, “Yes, this is what we’re supposed to do.”

Now it was September of this year, and Aubrey was bringing her vision to life outside a coffee shop on a perfect Dallas morning. She was setting up a table. She was putting out stacks of pastel-hued postcards with photos of women and babies. She was propping up a sign that read, “Blue Haven Ranch” and “Donate Today.” Her goal was $10,000, and her sense of urgency was growing because of all that had happened up until this point.

Four months before, Texas legislators passed a bill outlawing most abortions in the state.

Three weeks before, the law had taken effect, and though it was being challenged in court, a similarly restrictive Mississippi law was headed to the most conservative U.S. Supreme Court in decades.

The growing sense among evangelical Christians was that the end of Roe v. Wade was no longer a dim possibility but a near certainty. The time had come for the next phase — a new era in America when the church would establish a kind of Christian social safety net where motherhood was not only supported but also exalted as part of God’s plan for the universe.

Increasingly, this was the cause mobilizing the megachurches rising across the Texas suburbs, most especially an emerging network of women who flocked to them, and Aubrey Schlackman was part of this vanguard. Her project was gathering momentum, and in front of the coffee shop, she was greeting her first prospective donor of the day.

“Morning, we’re a local nonprofit supporting single pregnant moms,” she said to a young woman who read the sign, studied the postcard and responded without hesitation.

“Such a blessing,” she said. “Do you take checks?”

.https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/16/evangelical-women-texas-abortion/

How evangelical women in Texas are mobilizing for a future without abortion

How evangelical women in Texas are mobilizing for a future without abortion

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