We Support Pro-Family Policies

At Evangelicals for America, we believe in a pro-family agenda rooted in the conviction that every person is made in the image of God, deserving of dignity and respect. This belief calls us to advocate for policies that uplift and protect families, ensuring that everyone has the support they need to flourish.

A loving family is one of the fundamental places where dignity and respect are experienced. This is why we support efforts to establish policies that strengthen family life and provide essential resources. Moving forward, we remain committed to championing compassionate, family-centered policies that reflect our shared values and respect for all.

Compassionate Care

Real Consequences

IVF for Families

Rejecting Extremism

Prioritizing Compassionate Care

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, our country has been plunged into chaos, as extreme laws and severe court decisions have led to alarming consequences:

Criminalization of pregnant women, their families, and their healthcare providers
Forced miscarriages to happen at home rather than in hospitals
Restrictions on IVF, limiting options for couples seeking to grow their families

At Evangelicals for America, we believe we must find a path forward that balances compassion with justice. While we may hold deeply personal convictions, we reject the divisive extremism on both sides that threatens to tear our communities apart. Instead, we are called to promote policies that reflect Christ’s love, prioritize compassionate care, and allow us to find common ground.

The decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has left nearly one-third of American women living in states where abortion is banned or severely restricted. The impact on standard medical care during pregnancy has been profound, with doctors and hospitals feeling constrained by these new laws.

As we move forward, let us seek policies that address these unintended harms and that prioritize human dignity, grace, and unity.

Real Life Consequences

Kate Cox’s heartbreaking experience in Texas highlights the tragic consequences of extreme abortion laws and the failure of narrow exceptions to address real-life emergencies. Despite carrying a pregnancy complicated by Trisomy 18—a genetic disorder with fatal outcomes—and facing risks to her future ability to have children, Texas law offered no practical options. Under Texas law, abortion is only permitted to save the mother’s life, and the ban takes effect at six weeks, well before most women even know they’re pregnant. In Cox’s case, she and her husband, Justin, didn’t receive their baby’s terminal diagnosis until 20 weeks.

Kate, a mother of two, made her decision with deep sorrow, stating, ‘I want more babies … and I didn’t want her to suffer.’ Yet her ordeal was far from over. After a district court ruling in her favor, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton—who was later impeached by his own party—threatened prosecution for anyone helping her. The Texas Supreme Court then denied her request, saying her doctor hadn’t met the legal threshold to claim her life was at risk.

Every year, around 900,000 women in the U.S. suffer miscarriages, but under these extreme laws, many are sent home to miscarry alone, or are denied care until the baby’s heart stops, which can lead to serious, even life-threatening complications. Fear of prosecution has also led doctors to avoid providing essential, life-saving care during pregnancy. In some cases, women are forced to undergo invasive procedures like C-sections when less drastic options would suffice, endangering their health, their future fertility, and sometimes their lives.

Adding to this, legislators in states like Oklahoma and Tennessee are proposing to criminalize those who help women travel out of state to access abortion care, with Idaho already attempting such a law. Friends or family members could face up to 15 years in prison simply for offering gas money or providing a clinic address.

At Evangelicals for America, we believe laws governing abortion must be compassionate and responsive to the real, complex situations women and families face. We call for policies that honor human dignity, allow for compassionate care, and protect both women’s health and the sanctity of life. Extreme laws that fail to consider these factors only lead to more suffering and division, when what we need most is unity, grace, and understanding.

Impact on the Availability of IVF to Grow Families

The recent decision by the Alabama Supreme Court is casting uncertainty over the future of in vitro fertilization (IVF), an essential option for families who cannot conceive naturally. For countless couples facing infertility, as well as mothers who have lost their ability to bear children naturally, IVF offers the hope of building the families they’ve always dreamed of.

Elissa Smith and her husband, Taylor, from Birmingham, are one such couple. After being diagnosed with cervical cancer shortly before the birth of their daughter, Elissa learned that IVF was her only option for having more biological children. “Now IVF embryo transfers are my only hope at expanding our family,” Elissa says. “I hope that this option isn’t taken away and that more barriers aren’t placed for people like me—or for anyone wanting to create the family they’ve envisioned.”

Currently, proposed federal legislation based on the Alabama court's ruling could eliminate access to IVF, with no exceptions. Some activists are pushing to go even further, labeling exceptions for IVF as a “license to kill.”

As Evangelicals for America, we believe that protecting the sanctity of life also means supporting the sacred desire for families to grow and flourish. The right to build a family through IVF should not be in jeopardy due to sweeping, extreme laws. We call for compassionate policies that respect both the gift of life and the precious opportunity for families to grow.

Rejecting Extremism & Approaching Families with Compassion

We believe in rejecting extremism on all sides and finding common ground rooted in compassion and understanding. Reasonable limits should guide the availability of abortion later in pregnancy, but empathy must be the rule—especially in cases of miscarriage or pregnancies that endanger a mother’s life or future fertility. Doctors should not fear providing essential care during pregnancy, and the ability of families to grow through IVF must be protected.

The overturning of Roe v. Wade has brought about distressing consequences, including:

Extreme laws that impose a national ban on abortion, overriding state decisions
Efforts to eliminate IVF exceptions, with some activists calling IVF a “license to kill”
Restrictions on medications and actions to prevent mailing care-related prescriptions

These developments threaten compassionate, reasonable care for women and families. Our focus is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare, while working to reduce the need for it through measures like greater access to birth control.

We are committed to ensuring that tragedies like those faced by Kate and Justin Cox—who had to make a heart-wrenching decision to prevent their unborn baby from suffering and to preserve Kate’s ability to have more children—do not become the norm. Families like Elissa and Taylor Smith, who need IVF to build the family they envision, should not see this hope taken away by extreme policies.

Let us work together to support compassionate policies that allow women and families the space and care they need during these challenging times. We must protect the health of pregnant women experiencing miscarriages, uphold doctors’ ability to provide necessary medical care, and defend the opportunity for families to grow through IVF. Now more than ever, we must embrace unity and compassion to guide us forward.