(Abortion Free New Mexico) An explosive international report published by France’s largest newspaper is drawing global attention to New Mexico’s growing role as a hub for coordinated interstate abortion infrastructure operations — including the involvement of Albuquerque-based Faith Roots Reproductive Action, formerly known as the New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
The report comes as SB 30 has now officially taken effect in New Mexico, eliminating statewide abortion reporting requirements and further reducing public transparency surrounding abortion activity in the state. The law effectively dismantled a longstanding system used to track anonymous abortion data and statewide abortion trends.
At the same time, New Mexico politicians continue expanding taxpayer-funded abortion infrastructure projects while national abortion organizations increasingly coordinate transportation, lodging, and financial support systems designed to move women from pro-life states into New Mexico for abortions.
On May 24, French newspaper Le Monde published an article titled “In the United States, a Network of Airplane Pilots Helps Women Awaiting Abortions,” detailing the operations of Elevated Access — a rapidly expanding volunteer pilot network transporting women across state lines for abortions and gender-transition procedures.
According to the report, Elevated Access operates with approximately 500 volunteer pilots and an annual budget reportedly nearing $2 million. The organization coordinates flights for women traveling from pro-life states like Texas into abortion-friendly states such as New Mexico.
The article states that approximately sixty abortion-rights organizations now utilize Elevated Access services, including organizations based in New Mexico.
One of those organizations is Albuquerque-based Faith Roots Reproductive Action.
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Faith Roots — formerly operating under the name New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice — openly promotes abortion through religious messaging and activist faith organizing.
Le Monde quoted Faith Roots Executive Director Amanda Diaz stating:
“When they claim that abortion is a sin, our members respond that abortion is a right for families.”
Diaz further acknowledged the dramatic increase in abortion-related assistance following the fall of Roe v. Wade:
“We used to help about 20 people a month when the right to abortion was still guaranteed. Now it’s more like 60 to 70.”
Abortion Free New Mexico (AFNM) says the article confirms that New Mexico has become deeply embedded in a sophisticated post-Roe abortion-access infrastructure involving transportation networks, activist nonprofits, abortion funds, logistical coordination systems, donor-backed organizations, and politically connected activist operations designed to move women from pro-life states into abortion-friendly jurisdictions.
Faith Roots Reproductive Action is part of the broader Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice network, which has historically received funding support from major progressive philanthropic organizations, including entities connected to George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and other nationally connected donor networks, according to publicly available nonprofit grant disclosures and funding records.
Abortion Free New Mexico says the involvement of nationally connected donor networks further demonstrates that New Mexico’s abortion expansion is being fueled not only by local activism, but also by well-funded national political and ideological organizations supporting interstate abortion-access operations.
Abortion Free New Mexico has also previously documented how celebrity-backed abortion funds, billionaire-connected donor networks, and national activist organizations are helping finance abortion travel into New Mexico through airfare assistance, lodging support, transportation coordination, and interstate logistical operations.
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“This report exposes the disturbing reality that organizations operating under the banner of ‘faith’ are actively helping build interstate abortion pipelines into New Mexico,” said Tara Shaver, spokesperson for Abortion Free New Mexico. “When abortion activists claim abortion is not a sin, they are attempting to redefine evil itself. You cannot claim the name of faith while organizing transportation networks to help kill unborn children. Abortion is violence against innocent human life, and Scripture is clear that shedding innocent blood is a sin.”
Shaver continued, “These are not isolated local activists operating independently. This is part of a larger, well-funded ideological movement involving billionaire-backed donor networks, political organizations, abortion funds, transportation systems, and activist nonprofits working together to expand abortion access across state lines.”
Abortion Free New Mexico warned that the use of religious language to justify abortion represents a direct contradiction of historic Christian teaching regarding the sanctity of human life.
The Le Monde article also profiled a 76-year-old volunteer pilot identified as “Clyde,” who reportedly flies women between Texas and New Mexico through Elevated Access while expressing confidence that local Texas anti-trafficking ordinances will not stop their operations.
According to the report, the pilot compared potential enforcement efforts to civil-rights-era arrests and suggested federal protections would ultimately shield abortion-related transportation activity from legal consequences.
Abortion Free New Mexico strongly rejects those claims.
“These activists are not merely offering rides,” Shaver continued. “They are building coordinated interstate systems designed to move women across state lines for the purpose of ending unborn human life while attempting to shield themselves behind nonprofit structures, donor networks, and political activism.”
The organization also noted that more than 70 Texas cities, along with multiple counties, have now adopted Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinances or related measures prohibiting abortion trafficking through private civil enforcement mechanisms.
Earlier this month, Muleshoe, Texas became one of the latest Texas cities to criminalize abortion trafficking, with local officials voting 4–1 to pass a Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance.
During public testimony before the vote, Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico warned that New Mexico’s expanding abortion infrastructure and interstate transportation systems are increasingly impacting neighboring states and exposing vulnerable women and minors to coordinated abortion-access networks operating across state lines.
The effort was spearheaded by Mark Lee Dickson, founder of the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative, which has worked with communities across the nation to pass local ordinances prohibiting abortion trafficking and related abortion-support activities.
“As more Texas cities and counties adopt ordinances prohibiting abortion trafficking and interstate abortion coordination, organizations helping facilitate these transportation networks are raising increasingly serious legal and ethical questions that deserve full public scrutiny and investigation,” said Shaver. “No organization should assume it is immune from accountability simply because it operates under nonprofit or religious branding.”
Abortion Free New Mexico is also calling for increased scrutiny regarding whether organizations actively facilitating abortion travel and abortion-access coordination should continue receiving nonprofit tax-exempt protections.
“Faith-based organizations helping coordinate abortion transportation networks while working to circumvent existing state laws protecting unborn children should face serious scrutiny regarding their nonprofit tax-exempt status,” Shaver added. “Americans should not be forced to subsidize organizations facilitating the destruction of innocent human life under the guise of charity or religion.”
Abortion Free New Mexico is calling for federal review of nonprofit organizations involved in interstate abortion-access coordination, abortion transportation networks, and efforts aimed at circumventing state laws protecting unborn children.
Abortion Free New Mexico further warned that the article comes amid growing concerns over New Mexico’s emergence as a national abortion destination state.
“As SB 30 now takes effect and New Mexico eliminates abortion reporting requirements, international media outlets are simultaneously documenting how activist transportation networks are openly coordinating abortion travel into our state,” Shaver said. “The abortion industry is evolving into a coordinated interstate operation, and New Mexico politicians are helping create the environment where it can thrive. The people of New Mexico deserve transparency regarding the organizations, donors, political networks, and transportation systems helping build an interstate abortion infrastructure centered in New Mexico. Public funding requires public accountability.”
Editor's note: This article was published by Abortion Free New Mexico and is reprinted with permission.
