From the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion to the modern day struggle for intersectional reproductive freedom, religious voices have been at the forefront of fights that matter for generations. We’re here to amplify essential voices, tell stories that often go unheard, and lift up the holy and healing work of faithfully pro-choice activists like you.
Episodes
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
In this two-part episode, Kelley Fox interviews Erin Duffy-Burke & Kathleen Joan, co-creators of the Resurrecting the Goddess Summit ahead of their 3rd annual online gathering. Listen in as they discuss the complexity of faith, finding the Divine Feminine in our present moment, and the importance of making space for expansive conversation and communities of growth. The 2025 Resurrecting the Goddess Summit is absolutely FREE and will be live on September 29th to October 3rd, featuring Kelley Fox in an online session!
Links to discussed content:
- [Episode 135] Resurrecting the Goddess: Liberating Christianity with the Divine Feminine (PART 1):
https://faithchoiceohio.podbean.com/e/resurrecting-the-goddess-liberating-christianity-with-the-divine-feminine-part-1/ - Resurrecting the Goddess Summit (Live Sept 29th - October 3rd): www.resurrectingthegoddess.com/?ref=56130-Faith-Choice-Ohio&track_al=KS1bd4uoZp6bxfuUA73Kn8av
- Brigid’s Flame: www.brigidsflame.org
- Interweave Ministries: www.interweaveministries.com
- Sophia as Wisdom in Christianity: https://braidedway.org/rediscovering-sophia-the-goddess-in-christianity/
- Emergent Strategy: https://adriennemareebrown.net/book/emergent-strategy/
- Running the Numbers: How Much Does an Abortion Really Cost? https://faithchoiceohio.podbean.com/e/running-the-numbers-how-much-does-an-abortion-really-cost/
- The Second Vatican Council: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_cti_20140610_sensus-fidei_en.html
Music by Korbin Jones
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
In this two-part episode, Kelley Fox interviews Erin Duffy-Burke & Kathleen Joan, co-creators of the Resurrecting the Goddess Summit ahead of their 3rd annual online gathering. Listen in as they discuss the complexity of faith, finding the Divine Feminine in our present moment, and the importance of making space for expansive conversation and communities of growth. The 2025 Resurrecting the Goddess Summit is absolutely FREE and will be live on September 29th to October 3rd, featuring Kelley Fox in an online session!
Links to discussed content:
- Resurrecting the Goddess Summit (Live Sept 29th - October 3rd): www.resurrectingthegoddess.com/?ref=56130-Faith-Choice-Ohio&track_al=KS1bd4uoZp6bxfuUA73Kn8av
- Brigid’s Flame: www.brigidsflame.org
- Interweave Ministries: www.interweaveministries.com
- Sophia as Wisdom in Christianity: www.braidedway.org/rediscovering-sophia-the-goddess-in-christianity/
Music by Korbin Jones
Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Thursday Aug 28, 2025
Rising prices have hit every aspect of the economy, and reproductive health services are no exception. Kelley Fox and Rev. Terry Williams discuss a fabulous tool for estimating the price of abortion that takes into account often ignored costs like travel, lodging, sedation, and more.
Exploring sources for abortion funding, Kelley and Terry explain why states like Ohio have decided to not prioritize funding reproductive care and why mutual aid through abortion funds and practical support organizations like The Jubilee Fund are closing the gap for abortion seekers in need.
Links to discussed content:
- Abortion Cost Estimator Tool: www.ineedana.com/estimate-abortion-costs
- I Need An A: www.ineedana.com/
- Judicial Bypass: https://reprolegalhelpline.org/young-people-and-abortion/
- The Jubilee Fund by Faith Choice Ohio: www.faithchoiceohio.org/jubileefund
- Preterm: www.preterm.org/
- Rewire article: https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/08/25/anti-abortion-facilities-get-ohio-grants-as-funding-for-other...
- Renewed Clergy Consultation Service: www.renewedccs.org/
- Faith Choice Ohio @ PRIDE: www.faithchoiceohio.org/pride
Music by Korbin Jones
Thursday Aug 14, 2025
Thursday Aug 14, 2025
Kelley Fox and Rev. Terry Williams talk with Charity Woods Barnes, founder of the Reproductive Justice Resilience Project, about her work to help reclaim rest, joy, and care for women of color navigating oppression and systemic injustice.
Devoted to cultivating a shift in culture toward radical care, healing, and collective liberation, Charity shares what life has been like forging a reproductive justice practice that both feeds her spirit and also guides others in finding their way in the movement.
Links to discussed content:
- Reproductive Justice Resilience Project (RJRP): https://rjresilienceproject.org/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaeRnW5UV2YtYvMaQEvwlpv9D16eU4V2ovx1vCf4MlqcvNHJwIWQLZH7SXnZuQ_aem_z4VdNAZMmrWPFJFEwCE5Fw
- A Resilient Fire Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/rjrp-a-resilient-fire/id1818774537
- RJRP Lunar Guides: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1Euq2PNmYY3hiMwRaWTSQehJHhhW29fij
- Restorative & Transformative Justice Training: www.faithchoiceohio.org/restorative-and-transformative-justice-training
- Relearning Self-Care: www.faithchoiceohio.org/blog/relearning-self-care
- Finding the Divine as an Afrofuturist in a Christian Supremacist World: www.faithchoiceohio.org/blog/finding-the-divine-as-an-afrofuturist-in-a-christian-supremacist-world
Music by Korbin Jones
Tuesday Jul 29, 2025
Tuesday Jul 29, 2025
When the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a death blow in 2022 to federal abortion protections offered by Roe v. Wade, a gruesome patchwork quilt of abortion regulations covered the nation, creating drastic gaps to abortion access from state to state. Three years into this new “normal,” Kelley Fox and Rev. Terry Williams talk about what life is like now that nobody got what they really wanted from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Focusing on the impact that confusing abortion laws and vague, ever-changing repro rights restrictions have on patients seeking care, Kelley and Terry frame the present as a prelude to what's possible through religious freedom protections, communal resistance, and effective organizing in the coming years.
Links to discussed content:
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (U.S. Supreme Court Decision that overturned Roe v. Wade): www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf
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(Episode 130) Recent podcast episode on the difference between the "Pro-Life Movement" and the "Abolish Human Abortion" sect: https://faithchoiceohio.podbean.com/e/they-had-it-comin-division-in-ohios-anti-abortion-industry/
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Guttmacher Map & Resources: https://states.guttmacher.org/policies/
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Ohio Abortion Lawsuits: https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/12/03/battle-over-abortion-regulations-continues-in-ohio-lawsuits-stretch-into-2025/
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FREE online Self-Managed Abortion in Good Faith training: www.faithchoiceohio.org/self-managed-abortion-in-good-faith-training
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The Jubilee Fund for Abortion Justice (practical support for abortion seekers): www.faithchoiceohio.org/jubileefund
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Repro Legal Helpline: https://reprolegalhelpline.org/
Music by Korbin Jones
Monday Jul 14, 2025
Monday Jul 14, 2025
Kelley Fox talks with Samantha, Program Coordinator of Faith Choice Ohio, about her work in organizing our presence at PRIDE festivals and via FCO's Abortion Care Package program. Together, they discuss the non-transactional, no-expectation nature of showing up for reproductive health, rights, and justice, especially as people of faith.
Links to discussed content:
- PRIDE with Faith Choice Ohio: www.faithchoiceohio.org/pride
- Abortion Care Packages with Faith Choice Ohio: www.faithchoiceohio.org/abortion-care-packages
- (PODCAST) Telling Our Stories: Samantha’s Journey to Abortion Advocacy:
https://faithchoiceohio.podbean.com/e/tellin-our-stories-samantha-s-journey-to-abortion-advocacy/ - (PODCAST) They Had It Comin’: Division in Ohio’s Anti-Abortion Industry: https://faithchoiceohio.podbean.com/e/they-had-it-comin-division-in-ohios-anti-abortion-industry/
- People of All Religions Use Birth Control and Have Abortions: www.guttmacher.org/article/2020/10/people-all-religions-use-birth-control-and-have-abortions
- Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel, by Loretta Ross: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Calling-In/Loretta-J-Ross/9781982190798
- We Will Not Cancel Us, by adrienne maree brown: - https://adriennemareebrown.net/book/we-will-not-cancel-us/
- Unthinkable Thoughts: https://adriennemareebrown.net/2020/07/17/unthinkable-thoughts-call-out-culture-in-the-age-of-covid-19/
- Restorative & Transformative Justice Training: www.faithchoiceohio.org/restorative-and-transformative-justice-training
Music by Korbin Jones
Thursday Jul 03, 2025
Thursday Jul 03, 2025
After a 2023 ballot initiative confirmed that anti-abortion sentiment is a minority position in Ohio, the state’s anti-abortion industrial complex split into two fairly distinct ideological camps. Kelley Fox and Rev. Terry Williams explore the rift between Ohio’s “Pro-Life Movement” and their foil, the “Abolish Human Abortion” sect — including why those names are better classed as propaganda than truly descriptive.
Drawing on strong theological reflection, the history of U.S. reproductive rights, and basic grade-school logic, Kelley and Terry take listeners through the break-up we all knew was coming as the anti-abortion rhetoric starts to not make sense even to its own practitioners.
Links to discussed content:
- Ohio lawmakers propose bill that would grant legal personhood at moment of fertilization: www.athensmessenger.com/news/ohio-lawmakers-propose-bill-that-would-grant-legal-personhood-at-moment-of-fertilization/article_3c08abc5-bcdd-4609-b9e8-f9fead53ddfb.html
- Inside the latest challenge to Ohio’s reproductive rights amendment: www.cleveland.com/news/2025/06/inside-the-latest-challenge-to-ohios-reproductive-rights-amendment.html
- Anti-abortion ‘abolitionists’ take slavery rhetoric to the next level: https://georgiarecorder.com/2023/09/02/anti-abortion-abolitionists-take-slavery-rhetoric-to-the-next-level/
- This Ohio Turf War Is the Latest Sign That the Anti-Abortion Movement Is in Disarray: www.thenation.com/article/politics/ohio-abortion-constitutional-amendment/tnamp/
- R-Soul Episode 7: Liver & Onions (and Abortion): https://faithchoiceohio.podbean.com/e/liver-and-onions-and-abortions/
- Restorative & Transformative Justice Training: www.faithchoiceohio.org/restorative-and-transformative-justice-training
Music by Korbin Jones
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Recounting both firsthand experience and repro-political history, Kelley Fox and Rev. Terry Williams help listeners see the explicit connection between anti-abortion ideology and modern political violence in the U.S.
Catalyzed by the recent assassination of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, Kelley and Terry explain why it’s no big surprise that Rep. Hortman’s assassin also targeted abortion workers in his destructive quest. Revisiting historical examples of anti-abortion violence, this episode also provides listeners with concrete steps to achieve focus, maintain perspective, and keep pressing forward in the fight for abortion justice and reproductive freedom.
Links to discussed show notes:
- Abortion providers devastated by political killings, hit list: thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5353386-abortion-providers-targeted-missouri-shooting/amp
- 'God Sent the Shooter,' & Other Lies by Political Extremists, by Rev. Terry Williams: www.faithchoiceohio.org/blog/2019/5/31/god-sent-the-shooter
- The Army of God: newreligiousmovements.org/a/army-of-god
- Video of "Cry Night" at an Evangelical Camp: www.tiktok.com/@emhahee/video/7246223464242105643
- PRIDE 2025 with Faith Choice Ohio: www.faithchoiceohio.org/pride
- Finding Small Joys in a Summer of Turmoil, by Kelley Fox: www.faithchoiceohio.org/blog/finding-small-joys-in-a-summer-of-turmoil
Music by Korbin Jones
Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Kelley Fox and Rev. Terry Williams are joined by special guest Constance Dunlap, Minister-in-Residence at Faith Choice Ohio, to talk about her ongoing calling, work, and witness for reproductive justice in faith-forward spaces.
A doctoral candidate at Garret Evangelical Seminary, Constance shares deep wisdom, connecting her Baptist spirituality with an embodied sexual health advocacy that centers relationships, community-building, and compassionate presence. Listen in as Constance leads listeners on an exploration of personal and community growth by reflecting on current challenges in the repro movement and the exciting opportunities that these times bring for those who are struggling for freedom.
Links to more content by Minister Constance Dunlap:
- Justice as an Invitation to Transformation: www.faithchoiceohio.org/blog/justice-as-an-invitation-to-transformation
- Reproductive Freedom is Body Work: www.faithchoiceohio.org/blog/reproductive-freedom-is-body-work
- Lament for the New and the Not Yet:
www.faithchoiceohio.org/blog/a-lament-for-the-now-and-not-yet - Reconcile and Reclaim Collaborations:
www.reconcileandreclaim.com/
Music by Korbin Jones
Thursday May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
Kelley Fox and Rev. Terry Williams take time to honor the life and story of Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider who was murdered while serving as an usher at his church on May 31, 2009.
Centering the episode on the life of Dr. Tiller, Kelley and Terry connect the dots between violent religious extremism and anti-abortion acts of terror, drawing the link between forces at play in the murder of Dr. Tiller and modern violence against reproductive health providers as recent as this year. Faith Choice Ohio's liturgical resources for use in your own Tiller Observance are also discussed — with the episode closing in a powerful prayer from the 2025 Tiller Observance Resource Guide.
Links to discussed content:
- Palm Springs IVF Clinic Bombing: www.npr.org/2025/05/19/nx-s1-5403669/what-we-know-palm-springs-ivf-clinic-bombing
- New Faith4Repro Store (with "Keep Your Theology Off My Biology" merch): www.faithchoiceohio.org/store
- 2025 Tiller Observance Resource Guide (with prayers, reflections, and video content for use by congregations and individuals): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MT7FQGxq_8GK7ghNpw_ytvtjVXO_Hoi7?usp=drive_link
- Killing the Black Body, by Dorothy Roberts: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/155575/killing-the-black-body-by-dorothy-roberts/
- A Brief History of Deadly Attacks on Abortion Providers: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/29/us/30abortion-clinic-violence.html
- The Anti-Abortion Roots of Christian Nationalism: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-christian-nationalism-abortion-ban-b2629614.html
- "'God Sent the Shooter' & Other Lies by Religious Extremists," a blog article by Rev. Terry Williams: www.faithchoiceohio.org/blog/2019/5/31/god-sent-the-shooter
- "Worth It All," a blog article by Rev. Terry Williams: www.faithchoiceohio.org/blog/worth-it-all
Music by Korbin Jones