Albuquerque, New Mexico- On Thursday, July 31, a couple in their early 20’s chose life for their pre-born baby outside of an all trimester abortion center in Albuquerque, NM. The Abortion Free New Mexico sidewalk team prayed with this couple from the Texas hill country, who stated that they had been reading the Bible the night before. All they needed was encouragement to make the right choice. The sidewalk team also gave them the assurance of ongoing help and mentorship throughout the pregnancy.
“This is what can happen when we put our Christian faith into action. We rejoice that this couple accepted the encouragement to choose life for their baby, but we shudder to think of what would have happened had our team not been there. Every woman, every couple and every family deserves to know that the pro-life community is ready to walk with them throughout an unplanned pregnancy and that there are resources to meet every need a pregnant mother has. This couple will receive the absolute best mentorship and discipleship on their journey and we look forward to what the future holds for this family,” stated Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico.
Currently, the majority of women seeking abortions in New Mexico are from out of state, primarily Texas. Abortion Free New Mexico has over 40 volunteers that reach out to abortion minded women daily at Albuquerque abortion centers. Most women these sidewalk teams encounter are not aware of the plethora of resources that are available to them. This fact makes a peaceful and supportive sidewalk presence so vital in Albuquerque where there are six abortion centers.
Albuquerque, New Mexico- On July 16, 2025 the Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll, issued an apology to Operation Rescue on behalf of the Department of Defense. For years the US Army held training seminars that vilified pro-life groups as domestic terrorists, which has been detrimental to the reputations of many pro-life groups including that of Abortion Free New Mexico leaders.
Here is an excerpt from the letter addressed to the American Center for Law and Justice, which represents Operation Rescue and its President, Troy Newman.
“Thank you for your April 24, 2025, letter to the Secretary of Defense and to me regarding your client, Operation Rescue. I am responding for both of us. I was troubled to learn that an Army Army antiterrorism and protection training conducted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina had mischaracterized Operation Rescue, National Right to Life, and other pro-life groups as terrorist organizations.
This characterization was not only inaccurate but also deeply inappropriate.
Let me be clear, the Army does not consider Operation Rescue, National Right to Life, and other pro-life groups as terrorist organizations.”
Driscol continued,
“While I cannot undo the harm that this training caused, I want to offer my sincerest apology to Operation Rescue, National Right to Life, and all pro-life groups negatively impacted by the false characterization of all pro-life organizations made by this training. Please be assured that I am firmly committed to rigorous oversight of all Army training materials to prevent such incidents from occurring in the future.”
This apology was accepted by Operation Rescue President, Troy Newman but, unfortunately, it appears that the damage has already been done.
“I am glad to accept the Army’s apology, but the harm this has caused Operation Rescue has been incalculable,” said Newman. Being labeled a terrorist in these troubled times has carried with it a heavy burden on my staff and me.”
As pro-life missionaries and former interns of Operation Rescue, Abortion Free New Mexico leaders, Bud and Tara Shaver were directly targeted with this deeply harmful misinformation. Not only did Media Matters publish the articles below but groups like the former New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, now Faith Roots, petitioned the Archbishop of New Mexico to prevent the Shavers from making the state their mission field in 2010.
“What Media Should Know About The Anti-Choice Group Protest ABQ: Meet The Group That Has A History Of Targeting Abortion Providers, Has Connections To Violent Anti-Choice Groups, And Is Now Feeding Misinformation To A Congressional Panel
Bud and Tara Shaver make no secret of their affiliations with Operation Rescue and its leader, anti-choice extremist Troy Newman. In 2010, Operation Rescue issued a press release announcing that it was “sending two missionaries to Albuquerque, New Mexico[.] According to Newman, “The Shavers have been a tremendous asset to Operation Rescue during their time with us and have done some amazing work. … the Shavers will continue to be a blessing to the pro-life efforts in Albuquerque as they work together with established organizations to end abortion in that community.”[Operation Rescue, 6/14/10]
“Anti-abortion extremist group resurfaces to promote anti-choice misinformation in Wash. Times
In a June 20 article, The Washington Times gave an uncritical platform to a newly re-formed New Mexico anti-abortion group, Abortion Free New Mexico (AFNM). This group is the latest venture of longtime anti-choice extremists Bud and Tara Shaver. The Shavers are acolytes of Troy Newman, the head of the extreme anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, which has for years pushedviolent rhetoricagainst, and harassment of, abortion providers. Prior to forming AFNM, the Shavers headed a similar campaign in New Mexico, called Protest ABQ. Protest ABQ operated from 2014 to March 2017 and not only targeted individual abortion providers and clinics, but also deceptively recorded comments made by clinic staff in order to allege wrongdoing. Before concluding the Protest ABQ campaign, the Shavers leaked their baseless information to a congressional panel investigating disproven claims against Planned Parenthood.”
In the most troubling example, the Democrat Party of New Mexico took these false characterizations more seriously and directly tied our efforts to domestic terrorism:
”Pro-life activists tied to terrorism in abortion-crazed New Mexico”
At the time, Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico issued the following statement,
“For over 12 years we have served New Mexico as pro-life missionaries and have run a successful pro-life ministry without any acts of violence. We have exposed the graphic truth about abortion and have peacefully sought to bring accountability to an out of control and completely unregulated abortion industry in New Mexico. Our goal is to end the atrocity of abortion while educating our culture to embrace women in crisis who are considering an abortion in order to help them rise above their circumstances.
For the Democrat Party of New Mexico to publish egregious misstatements with total disregard for the truth and accuse us of being extremists is the height of hypocrisy. It is the DPNM that is extreme in their view as they champion all abortions, even those up to the day of birth.
We love and value pregnant women from all walks of life and desire to protect them and their pre-born children. We will never waver from proclaiming the truth about the atrocity of abortion and will always stand up for the, ‘least of these’ among us. Our prayers go out to those who support abortion and we hope that those especially in Democrat Party of New Mexico would come to conversion and see how beautiful the gift of life truly is.”
Abortion Free New Mexico and other pro-life groups have been rightly vindicated by the Department of Defense’s investigation. For over 15 years pro-life leaders Bud and Tara Shaver have led a successful ministry free of violence or terrorism, instead they have lived out the gospel with the aim of building a culture of life in New Mexico.
Tara Shaver issued the following statement,
“For years our family has been attacked and slandered by the radical left in New Mexico because we unapologetically oppose the killing of pre-born children in their mothers wombs. Now the record is set straight and our reputation is exonerated. It’s time to move forward and help all New Mexicans value women, children and families and to oppose the lies of the left that only serves to stifle any political progress of building a culture of life.”
Washington D.C. – On Thursday, June 26th the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled 6-3 in favor of South Carolina defunding Planned Parenthood, the nation’s most prolific abortion provider.
According to the Guardian,
“The case, Medina v Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, centers around a 2018 executive order from South Carolina’s governor, Henry McMaster, that blocked clinics that provide abortions from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.”
At the time Governor McMaster stated,
“Payment of taxpayer funds to abortion clinics, for any purpose, results in the subsidy of abortion and the denial of the right to life.”
The Guardian continues,
“The case in front of the supreme court did not directly deal with the question of whether South Carolina could legally remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid. Instead, the justices were asked to weigh in on a highly technical question: do Medicaid beneficiaries have the right to sue if they believe their right to a free choice of provider has been violated? In a 6-3 decision joined by every member of the court’s conservative supermajority, the justices ruled that, essentially, individuals do not possess that ‘enforceable right’.”
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch who wrote in the majority opinion stated,
“The decision whether to let private plaintiffs enforce a new statutory right poses delicate questions of public policy. New rights for some mean new duties for others. And private enforcement actions, meritorious or not, can force governments to direct money away from public services and spend it instead on litigation.”
He concluded,
“The job of resolving how best to weigh those competing costs and benefits belongs to the people’s elected representatives, not unelected judges charged with applying the law as they find it.”
Steven Ertelt of Life News gives more clarity on the SCOTUS ruling,
“The high court’s ruling means that the state can direct Medicaid funding—funds intended to help low-income individuals obtain necessary medical assistance—to comprehensive health care rather than entities that exist primarily to perform abortions.”
Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico issued the following statement,
“Abortion Free New Mexico believes that the US Supreme Court has made the right decision on this ground breaking case. State Medicaid programs should never be forced to fund abortions, especially through Planned Parenthood, which is a nonprofit but always profits billions off the shedding of innocent blood through abortion. We’re prayerful that this sets a precedent for future rulings with regard to defunding other abortion businesses using taxpayer dollars, which is in violation of many taxpaying Americans moral consciences.”
Abortion Free New Mexico is hosting a demonstration Saturday June 28th in conjunction with several other protests all across the country urging the US Senate to pass President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” which has a provision in it to defund Planned Parenthood.
According to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, if this bill passes 200 of their locations face closure.
Albuquerque, New Mexico- Many people probably don’t know that coercing a woman into getting an abortion is illegal in all 50 states. While most abortions are elective and are used as a form of birth control it is not unheard of for our ministry sidewalk teams to encounter women who are feeling the pressure of coercion to have an abortion. Some are young and their parents are forcing them to end the life of their child with the threat of being kicked out of their home. Some parents even threaten their daughters with the withdrawal of financial support or a college education if they don’t submit to an abortion.
Sometimes it’s boyfriends or husbands making the threats. Even though men are meant to lead and protect, far too often they shirk their duty and bring women to abortion centers insisting that their child’s life be ended.
Most people would agree that these forms of coercion are unacceptable and that women should be able to keep their babies if they wish despite their circumstances.
A new trend within the abortion industry, outside of state-funded abortions through Medicaid, is to promote “free” abortions which are offered through abortion fund networks. We have identified over 280 of these funds and their availability has opened up a new form of coercion. Interestingly, many of these funds are for specific people groups, for instance, some funds are only available for black or indigenous women and of course illegal immigrants.
“Ironically, we are seeing mass protests and riots burning cities to the ground over Republican immigration policies, deporting criminal foreign illegal migrants back to their home countries, meanwhile, the Democrat party and these abortion fund network groups openly support abortion policies that literally is a depopulation agenda targeting these same minority groups and funding the extermination of their children in the womb before they can become American citizens with tax dollars and charitable donations! Which one of these policies is more barbaric?” asked Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico.
These funds promise a fully paid-for abortion, lodging and travel. Some will pay for round-trip airfare and others pay for gas and lodging if the woman is willing to drive. For many, free things sound very nice, in fact, we’ve had women tell us that because their abortion was fully funded they believed it was God’s will to end their child’s life. What a tragedy.
Shockingly, some abortion funds are provided by fringe “religious” pro-abortion organizations. In addition to violating the basic biblical teaching, “Do not murder” these pro-abortion organizations also help these women break their own state’s pro-life laws that are in place to protect them and their babies. This should be grounds for these organizations to be stripped of their federal 501c3 tax exemptions!
Some women are on the fence about their decision when they arrive at the abortion center. These women change their minds once we sow hope and truth into their hearts. However, the fact that an abortion fund provided her travel and paid for her abortion makes her stricken with fear that she has to follow through. We have met some women who are genuinely experiencing coercion to obtain their abortion because of the funding they have already received. They believe that they will have to pay the money back.
This is a serious problem and we believe that it is a form of coercion. These pro-abortion networks make women feel that they have no other choice, they don’t leave room for changed hearts and minds. Women don’t need abortions, they need real support throughout their pregnancy and beyond. Having an abortion doesn’t change a woman’s situation, it just makes her the mother of a dead child.
There are so many ways that we can empower women to motherhood. As the pro-life community, we can counter abortion funds by serving pregnant women and letting them know that it’s never too late to change their minds about abortion. Abortion Free New Mexico has a Life Fund that provides many services and financial assistance to pregnant women in crisis so that they never have to feel coerced into having an abortion.
Tara Shaver is a spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico and a full-time pro-life missionary who has worked alongside her husband Bud Shaver since 2010 to make New Mexico “Abortion Free.”
Albuquerque, New Mexico- New Mexico has borne the tragic reputation as the late-term abortion capital of the country and now in a post Roe v. Wade era, is becoming known as the abortion capital of the Southwest partially because of the moral dereliction of duty by the religious community of this once great state. In addition to the notorious reputation we have for abortion tourism, New Mexico consistently ranks at the bottom of national statistics for education, child well being, and quality of life.
New Mexico is consistently one of the poorest states in the nation and has a low median income for families. Crime is rampant while drug use and homelessness is out of control.
A quick inquiry by Google AI confirms these tragic statistics:
Education • New Mexico ranks last in the nation for Pre-K-12 education • Some say New Mexico’s education system is underfunded and not designed for multicultural students
Income • New Mexico is one of the poorest states in the nation • New Mexico has low median family income
Quality of life • New Mexico has low school test scores and high crime • New Mexico ranks near the bottom of lists for child wellbeing • New Mexico ranks near the bottom of lists for quality of life metrics
Other rankings • New Mexico ranks near the bottom of lists for public safety • New Mexico ranks near the bottom of lists for raising a family • New Mexico ranks near the bottom of lists for business Where is the New Mexico church leadership in the midst of these realities? Surely more can be done collectively to turn these tragic statistics around.
According to Google AI, while the Catholic Church maintains a slight majority of religious adherents in New Mexico, Protestants are catching up.
Overall, 63% of all adults in New Mexico identify as Christians.
In summary:
“New Mexico has a significant Catholic population, making it one of the most Catholic states in the U.S.. While Evangelical Protestants make up the largest segment of the Protestant population, overall, the state also has a considerable number of residents who identify with other Protestant traditions. The overall Christian population in New Mexico is substantial.”
How do we reconcile the majority of adults in New Mexico identifying as Christians and the overwhelming religious majority identifying as Catholics, with a Democratic trifecta of total political power in the state by a party that is considered“At Odds With Christianity”!?
In his article titled, “No, Christians Cannot Support The Democrat Party”, Pastor, Seth Brickley emphatically states,
“No political party in American history is more at odds with biblical Christianity than modern-day Democrats. The party has enshrined the ritualistic child sacrifice of abortion in their party platform. Scripture teaches that life begins at conception (Psalm 139:13-16) but the Democrat Party advocates for abortion at every moment of pregnancy, with the vast majority of Democratic leadership also advocating for even killing children post-birth in cases of botched abortions. In January 2023 almost all House Democrats voted for this evil.”
Why do the majority of New Mexicans continue to vote for political leaders who abandon their Christian values while in office and are rarely held accountable by the religious leaders and constituents of the state?
“The building blocks of a stable community are engaged leaders within the family and religious leaders that will utilize the pulpit to sharply remind political leaders of their moral obligation to enact legislation that will curb the moral degradation of our society,” stated Bud Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico.
Abortion Free New Mexico leaders Bud and Tara Shaver are prominent pro-life missionaries in New Mexico. They are known for their strong opposition to abortion, especially late-term abortions, and have actively sought to restrict abortion access in the state. The Shavers’ efforts have made them a focal point in the debate surrounding abortion in New Mexico, which remains a state with relatively few restrictions on abortion access.
Albuquerque, New Mexico- Abortion Free New Mexico has witnessed several mothers choose life and leave the abortion center in recent weeks. Praise God! In fact, yesterday morning our team at the UNM abortion center embraced a young mom that is 8 weeks pregnant, with 4 existing children and is trying to escape a domestic violence situation. This mom approached our team in tears but after speaking with Tara, receiving hope, encouragement and prayer she left joyful.
This is what putting our faith into action produces, changed hearts and lives. Tara is helping this mom find work, safe housing and had diapers and wipes delivered to her doorstep. Your prayers and support are making an impact in New Mexico. Thank you!
Candidate Kickoff: Abortion Free New Mexico is excited to share an invitation with you to attend Manuel Lardizabal for New Mexico Lt. Governor campaign kickoff on Saturday, June 14. The next New Mexico gubernatorial election will take place on November 3, 2026, to elect the next governor and lieutenant governor of New Mexico. Please come and meet him and his family!
Details:
1:00pm
Redlands Park, 5121 Sequoia Rd NW Albuquerque, NM 87120
Upcoming Sidewalk Training- Abortion Free New Mexico will host another sidewalk outreach training this month on Thursday, June 19th. If you would like to learn how to meet mothers on the sidewalk and offer them hope and help this training is for you. Onsite prayer volunteers are also needed and this training is so helpful for that role as well. RSVP by scanning the QR code.
Albuquerque, New Mexico- In April of 2021 I was due to deliver my 5th child in a planned home birth that turned into an emergency c-section. It has taken me four years to be able to share this testimony because it was pretty traumatic on many levels. This pregnancy occurred during COVID and I was denied medical care at Lovelace hospital in Albuquerque because I refused to harm myself and my unbornchild by wearing a mask during routine visits. I believe this was the catalyst for having a c-section because I apparently had an underlying infection that was not diagnosed before delivery.
I have had three previous amazing home births and am a strong advocate for natural home birth without medical intervention unless there is an emergency. Home birthing is empowering to women, allowing them to be in a safe comfortable space, while also avoiding unnecessary medical interventions.
After 24 hours of labor with no progress, my midwife and I decided that we needed to get to the hospital because something wasn’t right. My plan was to go to any hospital other than University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) because they provide abortions, train abortionists and have their own free standing abortion center near the airport in Albuquerque.
However, my midwife informed me that if we went to UNMH that she knew that she’d be able to stay with me and advocate for me. She informed me that if anything was really wrong with my baby that he would be transferred to UNMH by other hospitals and could potentially lead to the separation of my baby and I. Since my husband had to stay home with our other children I trusted my midwife’s advice and we made the detour to UNMH.
Once I was signed in at the hospital we waited for the doctor to come in to meet me. As soon as abortionist, Lisa Hofler, walked in the door I immediately recognized her and my heart sank. At that moment, I panicked and asked myself if I should get up and go to another hospital.
“UNM Hospital has betrayed women and children by blurring the lines of true medicine. True medicine heals, not harms all of the individuals entrusted into their care, both born and unborn. Doctors can’t deliver babies at UNM Hospital and also kill babies at UNM Center For Reproductive Health abortion facility and maintain our trust, stated Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico.”
Instead, I gathered my composure and I told her that my baby’s life is just as important as my life but that if anything happened during delivery, to please save my baby. It was the main point I wanted to get across because I instantly did not trust this woman with the life of my unborn child knowing that she destroys little babies bodies by abortion on the days she is not delivering them.
The next few hours concluded with a very emergent c-section, my son was born with an APGAR of 1 out of 10 and Hofler said that he was looking straight at her with a stunned look on his face. He was stuck in my pelvic bone and had to be pried out of my womb.
I’m thankful that my son survived being delivered by an abortionist but it has come with a certain level of shame and trauma. Delivering there was a compromise on my part, because I’ve spent so much time over the years exposing UNM’s radically pro-abortion agenda. I was forced to have an abortionist as my labor and delivery doctor and had been given no other choice. In fact, Hofler told me after the fact that every doctor in labor and delivery that night was also an abortionist.
This situation put me as a pregnant woman in a dilemma that I never should have had to face. At delivery women should not have to worry whether or not their baby will be protected by those who are supposed to heal and not harm.
Birthing a child should be a joyous occasion, it is the most natural and beautiful process we as women get to experience. Hospitals like UNMH have blurred the lines of legitimate healthcare by allowing abortionists, who have betrayed true medicine, to deliver babies at the hospital on the days that they are not killing them at their free standing abortion facility.
“Abortion Free New Mexico leaders, Bud and Tara Shaver, have redefined the American Mission Field as full-time pro life missionaries to New Mexico since 2010 and are considered by the radical left as, “some of the country’s most strident activists opposed to abortion!” With the help of Operation Rescue and Fr. Stephen Imbarrato they have exposed New Mexico to the world as the “Late-Term Abortion Capital” a designation they coined based on their ground breaking research.“
Albuquerque, New Mexico- Abortion Free New Mexico is proud to announce the arrival of Baby Ezra, whose mom chose life last year after meeting Tara outside of a local abortion center. Mama E was already wavering in her decision but because we were there, she was given the hope and help needed to to say an emphatic yes to LIFE.
The picture of Baby Ezra above is what putting our faith into action produces. Mama E was assigned a mentor that has lovingly supported and discipled her since September and she has grown so much during this time.
We are so grateful for the pro-life community that surrounded her with love from the very beginning and has continued to pray for her. We rejoice over the birth of Ezra and we know that the Lord has great plans for him and his mom. Thank you for partnering with us to build a culture that loves life in New Mexico.
Prayerfully consider joining our sidewalk team, we need compassionate voices to speak up for the moms and babies flooding into our state each week. Training is provided.
Albuquerque, New Mexico- A recent report published by The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) revealed that the abortion drug, mifepristone, is significantly more dangerous than the FDA drug label currently indicates.
This largest-known study of the abortion pill is based on analysis of data from an all-payer insurance claims database that includes 865,727 prescribed mifepristone abortions from 2017 to 2023.
10.93 percent of women experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion.
The real-world rate of serious adverse events following mifepristone abortions is at least 22 times as high as the summary figure of “less than 0.5 percent” in clinical trials reported on the drug label.
The FDA should immediately reinstate its earlier, stronger patient safety protocols to ensure physician responsibility for women who take mifepristone under their care, as well as mandate full reporting of its side effects.
The FDA should further investigate the harm mifepristone causes to women and, based on objective safety criteria, reconsider its approval altogether.
Since 2000, the FDA safety standards regulating the abortion pill have decreased significantly.
In fact, a report published by Abortion Free New Mexico in 2024 revealed,
“While ALL of the abortion facilities provide the abortion pill, half (6) of the abortion facilities across New Mexico exclusively provide only chemical abortions also known as medical abortions.”
Shockingly, Abortion Free New Mexico’s report also exposed that,
“ALL of the free-standing abortion facilities distributing the abortion pill across New Mexico are prescribing the medical abortions well beyond the FDA’s approved cut off of 10 weeks.
7 New Mexico abortion facilities are distributing the abortion pill up to 11 weeks.
3 dispense the pill up to 11 weeks 6 days.
Full Circle Health Center located in Las Cruces, New Mexico offers the abortion pill up to 12 weeks.”
“It’s no surprise that a drug with a black box warning is more dangerous than originally thought. The sad thing is that most, if not all, abortion seeking women will not be informed of the facts listed in this report. New Mexico abortion centers are making these drugs even more accessible and dangerous by going beyond the FDA’s limits. Every abortion is an injustice, a crime against humanity, the abortion pill drugs should be taken off the market immediately.”
The Good News
Despite Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s radical attempt to expand abortion coverage in New Mexico, abortions actually decreased by 2,350 in 2024.
“This downward trend signals that fewer women are making the tragic choice of abortion, even in a state where abortion remains legal up to the date of birth. That change may be due in part to increased education, public awareness campaigns, and spiritual outreach. Organizations like Abortion Free New Mexico have actively sought to reach women through billboard campaigns along major highways from Texas, offering messages of love and encouragement to mothers in crisis. One reads simply, ‘Mommy. Be brave and turn around. I love you.’”
Albuquerque, New Mexico- Life Ministries U.S. has launched a billboard campaign in Texas to combat abortion tourism into New Mexico. Three billboards (two digital and one static) have been strategically placed along two separate major roadways in Texas toward New Mexico to reach women traveling for abortions. The website, PregnancyHelpToday.com, that is featured on the billboards, was created to present vital information, resources and financial assistance that is available to pregnant women in crisis. The financial assistance is provided by the Abortion Free New Mexico Life Fund.
The Life Fund meets the emergent financial needs of pregnant women in crisis. When a pregnant woman needs help paying rent, utility bills, childcare and other miscellaneous needs that often make women feel like an abortion is the only answer, the Life Fund is there to support her.
(Two different digital billboard designs)
(Static billboard along major roadway near the Texas/ New Mexico border)
As pro-life states like Texas are seeing their abortion numbers decrease significantly as a result of Roe v. Wade being overturned and abortion trigger laws, pro-abortion states like New Mexico are unfortunately seeing out of state abortions increase significantly!
Tragically, the vast majority of the out of state abortions being obtained in New Mexico are on women from Texas who are evading their states pro-life laws.According to a report from the Pinon Post,
“14,200 Texas babies were killed in the womb in New Mexico, marking a tragic influx since the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.”
Radical pro-abortion politicians, including New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D), have created an abortion “free for all” by utilizing state tax dollars to fund ad campaigns to draw Texas women into our state for abortions, recruit out of state abortionists to New Mexico to perform abortions, and has funded two multi-million dollar abortion centers to expand abortion into our state.
Additionally, Planned Parenthood funded at least two billboards celebrating unrestricted access to abortion in New Mexico (one pictured below).
Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Life Ministries U.S. issued the following statement,
“Crazed New Mexico democrats are hell bent on expanding abortion tourism into our state. So we have launched our response to their dangerous tax-funded targeting of out-of state pregnant mothers. The primary message of our billboard campaign is to encourage Texas women to ‘Turn Around’ and not come to New Mexico to end the lives of their pre-born children. The fact that women can circumvent Texas abortion laws, by interstate travel, is a real constitutional crisis that must ultimately be addressed by the United States Supreme Court.
How is the right to life in the United States of America lost by crossing a state line?”
Overcoming Major Roadblocks
This pro-life billboard campaign faced several roadblocks. Two major billboard companies: Lamar, and Lindmark rejected our billboards. Lamar cancelled our initial contract for, “abortion pill reversal language” on the website PregnancyHelpToday.com! Lindmark initially approved the billboard design, but then a manager later rejected our pro-life campaign citing potential vandalism concerns!
(Pictures above from the Valley Abortion Group social media pages. Top Left: Abortion center leaders pictured with Notorious Late Term Abortionist Shelley Sella.)
By Bud Shaver, Albuquerque, New Mexico- A new “queer” led abortion center has opened up in Albuquerque that performs abortions in all three trimesters. The Valley Abortion Group, also known as VAG clinic, was in its early stages of planning by third trimester abortionist, Carmen Landau when she died suddenly in October of 2022 at an illicit drug use conference. This is now the sixth abortion center operating in the city of Albuquerque.
It’s All About AbortionNo other services are offered except abortion at the Valley Abortion Group. As with most abortion centers, they are heavily leaning on multiple abortion funds to help women get their abortions for free. They even help with travel coordination, presumably primarily for those coming from out of state. In 2023, over 14,000 women from Texas came to New Mexico to end the lives of their children via abortion.
Valley Abortion Group performs elective abortions up to 32 weeks of pregnancy and in the third trimester they utilize the grisly M.O.L.D procedure that was crafted by late term abortionist George Tiller.
MOLD is an acronym for the four products employed in the abortion process: Misoprostol, Oxytocin, Laminaria, and Digoxin.
This induction abortion method takes 3-4 days to complete. On the first day the woman is given an ultrasound to determine the gestational age of her baby. Then, with the aid of the ultrasound to guide the abortionist, a lethal dose of the heart medication Digoxin is injected into the baby’s heart one of two ways: either directly through the mother’s abdomen or via the mother, vaginally. Digoxin gives the baby a fatal heart attack. This is an off-label application of the drug, which was developed and approved as a treatment for heart disease.
After the Digoxin injection, the woman’s cervix is packed with laminaria, thin tampon-like sticks made of seaweed that expand the cervix gradually over the next day.
The next day, the woman is repacked with larger laminaria sticks and given Misoprostol to prepare her for active labor.
On the final day of the abortion, the woman is given the drug Oxytocin, which induces contractions and the onset of labor. Women then are placed in a room where they endure the labor process. When it is determined that the labor has progressed to the stage where the baby is about to be delivered they often deliver their stillborn child in a toilet or basin.
Valley Abortion Group charges $12,500 for a 28 week abortion and at 32 weeks of pregnancy the cost is a staggering $17,500. New Mexico is one of 17 states that uses state tax dollars through Medicaid to fully fund abortions.Mixed MessagesThis radically progressive Valley Abortion Group
is seemingly trying to set itself apart from traditional abortion centers by claiming that there is a problem with “inequity.”
The Valley Abortion Group (VAG) Facebook page states that,
“At VAG our providers deliver care through an antiracist, survivor-centered, trauma-informed approach”
and that,
“All Genders Have Abortions.”
Apparently this just means that, to them, all the other abortion providers in New Mexico are racist bigots. Another big emphasis on their social media pages is a call to, “Free Palestine.”
“The Valley Abortion Group leaders seem very confused and unstable with fringe allegiances, ranging from the ‘queer’ community, which are physically unable to reproduce, to Palestinians in Gaza who are not indigenous to New Mexico. One thing is for sure, they are proudly hell bent on ending the lives of pre-born children up to the day of birth. No matter how hard they try though, they’ll never get rid of abortion stigma and rightly so, it’s not normal for mothers to intentionally take the lives of their pre-born children,” stated Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico.”
According to the NPI Registry, Thanh-Tam Ho a Certified Nurse Midwife, at the University of New Mexico is the co-medical director of the Valley Abortion Group. It also appears that Miriam McQuade, MD is affiliated with this abortion center.
The Abortion Free New Mexico sidewalk teams will begin reaching out to pregnant women at this new location to offer prayer, hope and resources to help them choose life for their babies.
Tara Shaver continued,
“The last thing New Mexico needs is another abortion provider. New Mexicans need to come together to build a culture that views motherhood as a beautiful gift and children as a blessing. So many leftist ideologies have permeated our culture and since there are no common sense laws such as waiting periods, informed consent or gestational limitations pregnant women in crisis are vulnerable to the predatory abortion industry. Abortion is innately traumatizing to a woman’s body, mind and soul. The Valley Abortion Group is unfortunately contributing to the degradation of women by only offering abortion procedures instead of real life resources that empower women to motherhood.”
Albuquerque, New Mexico- Lamar billboard company has halted a pro-life campaign launched by Life Ministries U.S. in Texas due to,
“abortion pill reversal language”
(Content/language that Lamar rejected)
This surprising decision came after Life Ministries US signed contracts with the company and weeks of working with a Lamar artist to design a billboard that reminds abortion seeking Texas women that their state laws are in place to protect them and their pre-born babies.
According to Tara Shaver of Life Ministries US,
“While the design of our pro-life billboard was approved quickly and without issue, according to email correspondence with Lamar representatives in Texas, the General Manager took issue with “Abortion Pill Reversal language” mentioned on the website that is featured on the billboard.
PregnancyHelpToday.com is the website that we created for this campaign to educate women traveling to New Mexico for abortions. It has information about pregnancy resource centers, abortion procedures and risks, abortion pill reversal and much more.
We are disappointed and shocked that Lamar is violating our free speech in attempting to control the content of a website that is on one of their boards. The Abortion Pill Reversal protocol has been proven to reverse the effects of taking the chemical abortion drug mifepristone. In fact, at least 6,000 babies have been reportedly saved using this proven protocol! The reversal protocols must be carried out by a licensed physician and it is the right of every woman to know her options before and after an abortion.”
Here are some of the email correspondences with the Lamar design team:
Tara Shaver requested clarification for which specific policy violation would result in the termination of the contract,
“Since there was no mention of this being a policy of Lamar’s on the contract, we would like to see that policy in writing that is being referred to with regard to the abortion pill reversal.
PregnancyHelpToday.com completes our billboard message because we’re not only wanting to let women know that Texas laws protect them and their babies, but we want them to be able to find help and alternatives to abortion as well. This includes abortion pill reversal options should a woman decide to change her mind.
Please provide Lamar‘s written policy with regard to this matter. Thank you very much.”
I have attached a copy of Lamar’s Copy Acceptance Policy for your review. Also, as per our contract: Standard Condition 6. Copy Acceptance: Lamar reserves the right to determine if copy and design are in good taste and within the moral standards of the individual communities in which it is to be displayed. Lamar reserves the right to reject or remove any copy either before or after installation, including immediate termination of this contract.
In communication with our Executive Vice-President of Governmental Relations, it has been determined that we can not run the submitted creative as content within the website provided falls outside of the Copy Acceptance Policy.”
Tara Shaver spokeswoman for Life Ministries US issued the following statement in response,
“The primary message of our billboard campaign is to encourage Texas women to ‘Turn Around’ and not come to New Mexico to end the lives of their pre-born children. We firmly believe that every woman deserves to know that if she has taken the abortion pill that she can change her mind especially if she is traveling home from New Mexico to Texas. Unfortunately, this is a truth that the abortion industry withholds from women. Furthermore, since abortions are illegal in Texas, the abortion pill reversal is absolutely in line with the moral standards of Texas.
It is our opinion that it’s Lamar’s (corporate management) standards that are out of line with the state of Texas.
The fact that women can circumvent Texas abortion laws, by interstate travel, to New Mexico and Lamar’s obstruction of our pro-life free speech efforts to prevent that, is the real moral violation here.“
BLATANT CONTRADICTION OF STANDARDS!
(Abortion Free New Mexico’s team provided this photo of a Lamar billboard on the border of New Mexico)
Lamar has pro-abortion billboards throughout New Mexico and Texas. The one pictured above is at the New Mexico border. In Texas, Lamar allowed billboards that claimed “Abortion is a Blessing” to be posted in 2020.
Tara Shaver calls out the blatant contradiction of standards by Lamar management,
“Lamar is currently allowing Planned Parenthood of The Rocky Mountains to promote a billboard in New Mexico celebrating abortion, while at the same time shutting down our free speech rights in New Mexico and Texas which is blatant hypocrisy.
CONCLUSION-
Lamar billboard company is on the wrong side of this situation. They claim to support the first amendment but seemingly want to withhold life saving information from abortion seeking women. One can only assume that they are willfully censoring our pro-life speech due to an internal pro-abortion bias within the higher levels of management.
“Crazed New Mexico democrats are hell bent on expanding abortion tourism into our state. So we are launching our response to their dangerous tax-funded targeting of out-of state pregnant moms in 2025! We ask for your prayers during this time as we plan and put things into motion. May the Lord’s will be done and may pregnant mothers find encouragement to choose life for their babies,” stated Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico.
As pro-life states like Texas are seeing their abortion numbers decreased significantly as a result of Roe v. Wade being overturned and abortion laws now being determined by individual states, pro-abortion states like New Mexico on the other hand, have seen out of state abortions increase 565%!
Shockingly, the vast majority of the out of state abortions being obtained in New Mexico, are from women crossing the border from Texas to evade their pro-life laws.
“14,200 Texas babies were killed in the womb in New Mexico, marking a tragic influx since the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.”
Therefore, the intention of our 2025 interstate campaign is to primarily reach abortion bound women traveling to New Mexico from Texas and provide them with help and alternatives to abortion.
Santa Fe, New Mexico- The New Mexico Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday, January 9, 2025 that counties and cities across the state cannot enact pro-life laws to protect pre-born babies. The Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn ordinances that were passed in New Mexico are known as Comstock Only Ordinances. These laws are not explicit abortion bans, but are “de facto” abortion bans. They require compliance with federal statutes specifically, specifically 18 U.S.C. § 1461 and 18 U.S.C. § 1462, prohibiting the mailing and receiving of abortion-inducing drugs and paraphernalia, according to Mark Lee Dickson.According to the New Mexico Supreme Court’s overriding opinion,
The Court wrote that the ordinances did not exactly follow federal law but went beyond the requirements. Several of the ordinances authorized city or county leaders to approve or deny licenses for abortion clinics and providers.
‘Because Respondents’ authority to regulate health care access and physician licensure is entirely preempted, Respondents’ police powers in these areas are extremely limited,’ the Court wrote. ‘To the extent Respondents have any residual authority, they certainly have no power to supplant the will of the statewide electorate in favor of their own.’
The counties and cities affected by the decision are: Lea County, Roosevelt County, Eunice, Clovis, Hobbs and Edgewood New Mexico. These local governments argued that the ordinances constituted a lawful exercise of their powers for protecting the “health and safety” of their residents.Abortion Free New Mexico first reported in 2019 on Lea County becoming first county in New Mexico to take this bold action:
Lea County Board of County Commissioners passed, “A Resolution In Support of the Unborn” making Lea County the FIRST Sanctuary County in New Mexico for the UNBORN! Jonathan Sena, District 4 County Commissioner sponsored the resolution. Thank you and God Bless Lea County, New Mexico!
The other counties and cities soon followed in their footsteps and took swift action to enact pro-life measures to prevent radical pro-abortion expansion into their communities.
As reported by the Las Cruces Sun News, Abortion Free New Mexico has fully supported these efforts.
After each local government in New Mexico voted to adopt a resolution essentially denouncing abortion, the fiercely anti-abortion organization Abortion Free New Mexico, run by Albuquerque residents Bud and Tara Shaver, issued a news release touting the action.”
Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico issued the following statement:
In 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ruled that states all across the country can now enact and enforce laws protecting the unborn. The Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn ordinances were based on federal laws that should absolutely be enforceable in every state.
The unconstitutional ruling by the New Mexico Supreme Court just proves that federal protection must be granted to restore personhood to the unborn because it should never be left up to corrupt states to arbitrarily decide who lives and who dies. Abortion Free New Mexico condemns the New Mexico Supreme Court’s decision to undermine federal laws from being enforced in our state where abortion tourism is so rampant. Women and children deserve better, cities and counties should be able to protect their citizens, whether born or unborn.”
Albuquerque, New Mexico- As 2024 comes to an end Abortion Free New Mexico has surveyed New Mexico abortion centers to assess their abortion practices. Unfortunately, in the wake of Roe vs. Wade being overturned in 2022 and the longstanding lack of any common sense protections for unborn children and pregnant women, there is now a dangerous trend of out of state abortion clinics relocating to New Mexico as well as chemical abortion providers expanding throughout the state.
Abortionist Alan Braid now owns both Alamo Women’s Clinic of Albuquerque and Southwestern Women’s Options. Southwestern Women’s Options is the notorious late-term abortion center, formerly owned by abortionist Curtis Boyd. Their website advertises abortions up to 32 weeks of pregnancy for “fetal anomalies”, but when you call the facility they only schedule election abortions up to 25 weeks. No further details were given over the phone for scheduling the later-term abortions for fetal anomalies.
See below for the survey analysis, the dangers of chemical abortions, and Abortion Free New Mexico’s Abortion Landscape summary of 2024.
Notable Facts
New Mexico allows telemedicine abortions via mail and has no gestational limits on abortion- full term abortions are legal through all nine months of pregnancy.
While ALL of the abortion facilities provide the abortion pill, half (6) of the abortion facilities across New Mexico exclusively provide only chemical abortions also known as medical abortions.
Half (6) of the abortion providers relocated to New Mexico from out of state (4 from Texas).
Notable Dangerous Trend
The majority (9) of New Mexico abortion facilities including ALL of the Planned Parenthood clinics, Whole Woman’s Health, Southwestern Women’s Options, Alamo Women’s Clinic of Albuquerque and The Satanic Temple offer remote or telemedicine appointments where women seeking abortions never step foot into an abortion facility nor do they receive any in-person screenings. The abortion clinic mails the abortion pills and the pregnant woman’s home becomes the abortion facility where they will flush their baby down the toilet after taking two different medications, Mifepristone (blocks progesterone) and Misoprostol (triggers contractions).
ALL of the free-standing abortion facilities distributing the abortion pill across New Mexico are prescribing the medical abortions well beyond the FDA’s approved cut off of 10 weeks.
7 New Mexico abortion facilities are distributing the abortion pill up to 11 weeks.
3 dispense the pill up to 11 weeks 6 days.
Full Circle Health Center located in Las Cruces, New Mexico offers the abortion pill up to 12 weeks.
Ironically the Satanic Temple is the only abortion provider abiding by the FDA’s protocols and only distributing the abortion pill up to 10 weeks gestation.
Abortion Pills Are Dangerously Distributed Well Beyond 7 Weeks
While the FDA initially approved the abortion pill to only be administered up to 7 weeks gestation, in 2016 the FDA approved the abortion pill for use up to 10 weeks gestation but only when administered during an in-person visit where an ultrasound is performed to ensure that there in not an ectopic pregnancy. Abortion facilities across New Mexico are dangerously administering the abortion pill remotely with no in-person visit to unsuspecting women well beyond 10 weeks, in violation of FDA protocols.
“It’s important to note that even the 10 week gestational cut-off is much later than what was originally approved by the FDA. Mifeprex (mifepristone) was first approved for chemical abortions in 2000 with a gestational cut-off of seven weeks. In 2016, the gestational cut-off was moved to 10 weeks, when paired with an in-person visit. This dangerous rollback ushered in a steady removal of safety regulations over the next several years.
Those removals came to a head in 2020, when the Biden administration used the COVID pandemic to temporarily suspend the requirement that abortion drugs must be given during an in-person visit with a doctor.
Shortly after Biden allowed the temporary suspension, the FDA made that change permanent, and abortion-pills-by-mail began to skyrocket. When a group of doctors dealing with growing complications from the reckless use of the abortion pill regimen tried to challenge these dangerous changes in the courts, the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled the doctors had no standing and allowed all the rollbacks to stay in place.”
The Abortion Pill has a “Black Box” Warning
It is important to note that the abortion pill was approved by the FDA in 2000 to only be used up to 7 weeks gestation due to serious risks and health complications including death. In fact, the abortion pill comes with notorious “Black Box” warning.
“What ‘Black Box’ Means: Drugs only receive this label in the case of serious, often deadly adverse reactions, which have been reported to the FDA after the drug was originally approved. In some cases, the manufacturers of these drug hid their knowledge of the side effects to speed the approval process, so the problems weren’t found until after release.”
A concise summary from ChatGPT explains,
“The abortion pill, also known as the medication abortion regimen, typically involves two drugs: mifepristone and misoprostol. The black box warning associated with mifepristone, which is the first drug in the regimen, is issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to highlight the serious risks that can occur with its use. The black box warning is the FDA’s most serious safety alert and is used when there are significant potential dangers that users need to be aware of.
In the case of mifepristone, the black box warning is related to:
1. Risk of Serious Infection
There have been reports of sepsis, a life-threatening infection, following medication abortions, particularly in cases where an infection has spread after the procedure. The risk is higher when there is a retained pregnancy tissue or infection in the uterus.
Clostridium sordellii, a rare bacterium, has been implicated in some of these cases, which can cause severe infection and can be fatal if not treated promptly.
2. Risk of Heavy Bleeding
Some women may experience heavy or prolonged bleeding following the use of mifepristone, which may require medical attention. While bleeding is a normal part of the abortion process, excessive or uncontrolled bleeding can pose a serious risk to health.
3. Ectopic Pregnancy
The medication is not effective for terminating an ectopic pregnancy, where the fertilized egg implants outside the uterus, often in a fallopian tube. If the pregnancy is ectopic and treated with mifepristone, it can lead to complications such as rupture and internal bleeding, which may be life-threatening.
4. Misuse or Unsupervised Use
The FDA also emphasizes that mifepristone should only be taken under medical supervision because improper use (such as using it without medical guidance or in cases where it is not indicated) can lead to serious complications.
The FDA ‘black box’ warning on the use of the abortion pill highlights the need for proper medical supervision, including screening for ectopic pregnancies and monitoring for potential complications. The warning serves as a precaution to inform patients and healthcare providers about these risks.”
“2660 (83.20%) Codable US AERs. (Figure 1). Of these, 20 were Deaths, 529 were Life-threatening, 1957 were Severe, 151 were Moderate, and 3 were Mild. 20 were Deaths, 529 were Life-threatening, 1957 were Severe, 151 were Moderate, and 3 were Mild.
The deaths included: 9 (45.00%) sepsis, 4 (20.00%) drug toxicity/overdose, 1 (5.00%) ruptured ectopic pregnancy, 1 (5.00%) hemorrhage, 3 (15.00%) possible homicides, 1 (5.00%) suicide, 1 (5.00%) unknown. (Table 1). Retained products of conception and hemorrhage caused most morbidity. There were 75 ectopic pregnancies, including 26 ruptured ectopics (includes one death).”
Documented Abortion Injuries
Since 2010, members of Abortion Free New Mexico have documented at least 50 abortion related injuries, including one death at abortion facilities across New Mexico. These documented abortion injuries were related to surgical abortions obtained by 911 records, confidential informants and eye witness testimony.
Whole Woman’s Health of New Mexico, Albuquerque– Provides medical abortions up to 11 weeks for $600. Telemedicine option available. Surgical abortions up to 20 weeks for $2,475. NM Medicaid will cover 100%. Relocated here from Texas.
UNM Center for Reproductive Health, Albuquerque– Medical abortion offered up to 11 weeks 6 days for $600. Surgical abortion up to 23 weeks 6 days for $3,000. Medicaid will cover 100%.
Southwestern Women’s Options, Albuquerque– Performs Medical abortion up to 11 weeks 6 days for $600. Telemedicine abortion available. Surgical abortion up to 25 weeks $5,000. Medicaid will cover 100%. Recording promotes minor’s don’t need parental consent and will provide full funding and travel expenses to minors for their abortions! Relocated here from Texas in 2010.
Alamo Women’s Clinic of Albuquerque- Performs Medical abortion up to 11 weeks 6 days for $600. Telemedicine abortion available. Surgical abortion up to 25 weeks $5,000. Medicaid will cover 100%. Recording promotes minor’s don’t need parental consent and will provide full funding and travel expenses to minors for their abortions! Relocated here from Texas.(Southwestern Women’s Options and Alamo Women’s Clinic of Albuquerque now have the same owner, Abortionist Alan Braid.)
Eubank Health Center, Albuquerque (Planned Parenthood)- Provides medical abortions up to 11 weeks for $625. Remote telemedicine option available. Surgical abortions performed up to 18 weeks for $1,417. Medicaid will cover 100%.
(Chemical Abortions Only) Farmington Planned Parenthood- Distributes medical abortions up to 11 weeks for $625. Remote telemedicine option available. Medicaid will cover 100%.
Las Cruces Women’s Health Organization- Distributes medical abortions up to 11 weeks $650. Surgical abortions performed up to 16 weeks $750-$1,200. Cash/ card only No insurance or Medicaid. In person only no telemedicine option. Relocated here from Mississippi.
(Chemical Abortions Only) Full Circle Health Center, Las Cruces– Distributes medical abortions up to 12 weeks for $250. NM Medicaid cover 100%. Remote telemedicine option available also mail, in person or drop box pick up.
(Chemical Abortions Only) Las Cruces Health Center (Planned Parenthood)- Medical abortions distributed up to 11 weeks for $625. Remote telemedicine option available. Medicaid will cover 100%.
(Chemical Abortions Only) Hilltop Women’s Reproductive Clinic, (aka Hill Top Family Planning) Dr. Theard (Sunland Park/ Santa Teresa New Mexico)- Provides medical abortions under 11 weeks for $690 (Cash Debit Credit Money order only). Relocated here from Texas.
(Chemical Abortions Only) Santa Fe-Planned Parenthood- Medical abortions distributed up to 11 weeks for $625. Remote telemedicine option available. Medicaid will cover 100%.
(Chemical Abortions Only) Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic-Out of state online only, not a free-standing facility. They distribute medical abortions up to 10 weeks.
Chemical Abortion Centers Only are exclusively abortion pill providers.
In conclusion, Tara Shaver spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico issued the following statement:
“New Mexico has sadly become a hot spot for abortion tourism and unrestricted abortion. Be it late term abortions, or now chemical abortions, the New Mexico abortion cartel is hell bent on foisting the most dangerous abortion practices upon unsuspecting women. Chemical abortions are being distributed in New Mexico abortion facilities well beyond FDA approved protocols and remotely without any prior in-person screening nor follow up appointments afterwards.
Every day Abortion Free New Mexico volunteers are prayerfully positioned on the sidewalk to let women know that they have options and that abortion is a death sentence for their pre-born child and a risk to their own wellbeing. We pray for new leadership in this state so that there is some measure of accountability for the irresponsible, dangerous abortion expansion that is currently so rampant throughout the state.
In response, Abortion Free New Mexico is launching an interstate campaign UTURNFORLIFE.COM to encourage pregnant mothers to choose life and inform them of the risks posed by the unchecked New Mexico abortion industry, before they ever reach our state. It is our hope that women are empowered by this campaign to be mothers through the resources and help that will be provided for them by the pro-life community.
Learn more about upcoming interstate campaign at UTURNFORLIFE.COM
By Bud Shaver, Albuquerque, New Mexico- 2024 flew by like the winds of New Mexico. It was packed full of sidewalk ministry! 2025 is quickly approaching and we can’t thank you enough for partnering with us to build a culture that loves life in our state. Rejoice with us over what the Lord has done this year by reading our top 10 highlights of the year. Your prayers are invaluable as we fight to be a voice for the voiceless. We are already making plans for 2025 and have announced our major statewide campaign UTURNFORLIFE.COM launching soon.
May God bless you abundantly, in the coming year, as you draw nearer to Him each day.
Year End Finale For Life 2024
We had an amazing Year End Finale For Life luncheon on 11/16. We had comedy provided by local stand-up comedian Virginia Gonzalez. Mark Lee Dickson ofSanctuary Cities For The Unbornshared virtually an encouragement to stay involved locally. We heard heartfelt testimonies from several volunteers and had a spectacular silent auction benefitting the Life Fund.
2024 Year In Review Top Ten Highlights
On The Sidewalk: 1-5 Highlights
Our team maintained a faithful sidewalk counseling presence at three local abortion facilities!
In 2024, Twenty moms chose LIFE! (That we know of!)
Two moms are actively receiving financial assistance through Abortion Free New Mexico’s Life Fund.
Our sidewalk team grew to 28 active volunteers this year!
Over 600 volunteer hours on the sidewalk in 2024!
6. Multiple Pro-Life High School Outreaches
7. New Memorial Headstone placed at Sandia Memory Gardens representing 3 moms.
8. Continued our collaboration w/ Embrace Grace & Love Life Albuquerque
By Bud Shaver, Albuquerque, New Mexico- On August 15, 2024, Abortion Free New Mexico leader, Bud Shaver, was peacefully and prayerfully reaching out to abortion bound women at Whole Woman’s Health abortion facility located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As part of his first amendment activity, he had pro-life signs, a “Love Box” containing baby items and helpful resources for pregnant moms, a diaper cake and Texas Department of Health resource publications (A Woman’s Right To Know and Resource Directory).
While he was waiting for the rest of his team to arrive, at approximately 8:15AM, a man in a vehicle (arrayed with several activist bumper stickers one being a LGBT equal sign) rapidly swerved over (from the driving lane into the parking lane) in a violent show of force attempting to strike Bud on the sidewalk. A few minutes later, the man approached Bud on the sidewalk and attempted to steal a large pro-life sign pictured above. Bud told the man to he couldn’t steal his property and took the sign away from him.
After failing to steal the first sign, the man then fled and grabbed another sign (front stating, “FREE RESOURCES Pull Over For Help!” back stating, “Love Will End Abortion”). Bud followed him around the block, but was not able to retrieve the sign.
When Bud returned to Whole Woman’s Health abortion facility, he noticed that his pro-life resources had been stolen, presumably by the abortion center workers!
On the sidewalks in front of abortion centers you never know what you will encounter. This incident happened very quickly and Bud tried to de-escalate the situation in the face of a hostile pro-abortionist that had demonstrated his intentions in his vehicle before approaching him on the sidewalk. Please pray for our teams that stand in the gap for pregnant moms and babies daily in the Albuquerque area.
Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico issued the following statement:
“Abortion Free New Mexico was robbed twice in one day, first by a violent pro-abortion extremist, and then by the abortion facility workers! Clearly our peaceful, prayerful presence is having an impact. Our signs and resources are seen as such a threat to the pro-abortion community that they have to steal them. Our team will not be deterred, we will purchase some more signs and materials and return to Whole Woman’s Health abortion facility more resolute than ever to help pregnant women in need and save precious babies lives.”
Albuquerque, New Mexico- During the 2024 Super Bowl LVIII an ad that many are calling “blasphemous” was aired, and it has rightfully sparked outrage among conservative Christians. Here are some examples of the most prominent voices of opposition:
The controversial ad features, in particular, a picture of a woman washing the feet of another woman at an abortion facility with pro-life individuals putting down their signs in the background. Other controversial images depict a Priest washing the feet of a LGBTQ+ individual and a police officer washing the feet of an implied criminal (police lights flashing in the background).
The ad ends with the words in all caps, “JESUS DIDN’T TEACH HATE, HE WASHED FEET.”
Interestingly, according to The Sporting News, “Among the donors behind the [He Get’s Us] campaign is the family of billionaire Hobby Lobby co-founder David Green, whose son is a board member at Come Near.”
The apparent Christian backed propaganda messaging implies, in the scene above, that the Pro-Life community shouldn’t protest abortion or peacefully confront abortion minded women at abortion facilities. To do so is not loving it is, “HATE”. They should instead follow Jesus’ example and “wash their feet.”
MYTH/PROPAGANDA VS. REALITY
Publicly being present at abortion facilities does convict abortion minded women, some of whom are already on the fence about their abortion decision. Some women even arrive looking for a “sign” or a way out and thank us for being there. Those who courageously and sacrificially go to abortion facilities to share the gospel and minister to women are the last line of defense on the frontlines of the battle for life in this country.
Abbey Johnson, a former manager at Planned Parenthood, revealed that upper management complained, “Our no-show rate goes up to 75% when people are outside our clinics praying.”
It has also been documented in the articles below that the use of both fetal development and abortion victim images of abortion violence, do change individuals minds and saves babies lives.
Abortionists at a National Abortion Federation gathering themselves readily admitted that abortion is, “grotesque, it is killing, and it is violent.” Abortion Free New Mexico firmly believes in and has seen the positive effects of the use of signs and especially those depicting what abortion violence does to babies in the womb. Women deserve to know what happens to their baby when they have an abortion and abortion facilities never show these images to them.
WHAT DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT ACTUALLY SAY?
Biblical (New Testament) examples of feet washing include Jesus/Christians washing fellow Christians feet expressing their humility, service and love to one another; and repentant sinners to Jesus as an act expressing their true sorrow for their sins:
In Luke, it was the repentant sinner who washed Jesus’ feet expressing her true sorrow over her sin, Luke 7: 37-38 “A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. 38 As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.”
John 13:2-17 Jesus washes his disciples feet, “Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.”
John 13:2–17 recounts Jesus’ performance of this action. In verses 13:14–17, Christ instructs His disciples: “If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.”
1 Timothy 5:10 reflects on the godly example set by fellow Christian widows, “and is well known for her good deeds, such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the Lord’s people…”
Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico issued the following statement,
“Abortion Free New Mexico is not motivated by hate, on the contrary, our love for abortion minded women and their babies compels us to act on behalf of our Christian faith and reach them on the sidewalks outside of abortion facilities before they make the tragic choice to take the life of their precious baby. We need more Christians to be willing to publicly pray at local abortion facilities because it does in fact, change women’s minds and saves babies lives. There are currently FIVE abortion facilities in Albuquerque alone. While we have an organized daily/weekly presence at two local abortion facilities the others have limited or no coverage at all.
If our peaceful, public presence was not effective at abortion facilities, then there would not be the need for abortion sympathizers to spend millions of dollars on a Super Bowl ad to thwart our efforts. If any Christian is offended by our pro-life efforts, then Jesus’ example should lead them to wash the feet of their fellow pro-life Christian brothers and sisters, not the feet of unrepentant sinners.”
Please pray for our selfless volunteers and consider joining us on the sidewalk. Training is provided.
Albuquerque, New Mexico- 2023 has been an amazing year for ministry here in New Mexico. We have seen the Lord move in so many ways and we find comfort in knowing that He ultimately wins in the end. Thanks to your partnership and support we rejoice in all that has been accomplished with 2 babies being born whose moms chose life after speaking with our team. Since October, we have witnessed 9 mothers turn away from abortion centers and choose LIFE! This demonstrates the necessity of being present with hope and resources at these places of death. The Lord has blessed our team with faithfulness, protection, wisdom and love as we are on the frontlines of the battle for lives and souls.
Another silver lining this year was Tara’s ability to be on InfoWars to shed light on the connections between abortion, human trafficking and satanism all of which exploit women and children and are intrinsically evil.
Enjoy our year in review and thank the Lord with us for all He has done in and through us. Please pray for us, our team and for a fruitful 2024. May His light shine through us and may we be ever more bold in proclaiming salvation through Jesus Christ and just how precious human life is.
Be assured of our prayers for you and our deepest gratitude for your partnership as we work to build a culture that loves and values life. God Bless You!
Top 5 Highlights of 2023
#1- As we close out 2023, Abortion Free New Mexico volunteers have seen 9 women choose life since we held our pro-life training weekend, with our ministry partner Love Life, in October of this year. In addition, two babies were born this year with one more arriving in January 2024! We have had the privilege of financially supporting a pregnant mother in Texas which prompted us to launch the Life Fund. This fund specifically serves to help mom’s that our team intercepts at local abortion clinics who choose life and need additional assistance during their pregnancy!
#2- Abortion Free New Mexico continued to host training seminars in 2023. We expanded our efforts to include local high school outreach. Our team also celebrated one year on the sidewalk with No Sidewalk Without the Savior. In addition to our daily presence out at the UNM abortion facility we also expanded our sidewalk counseling outreach to the Alamo Women’s abortion center. In 2023 we partnered with Love Life and hosted a sidewalk counseling training weekend at Praise & Worship Center.
#3- We continued to reach national audiences as our pro-life efforts in New Mexico received diverse coverage from newspapers, TV interviews and were even featured on the front page of Cosmopolitan Magazine! Tara wrapped up 2023 with an extensive interview with Owen Shroyer of Infowars.com. She joined Owen just days after he was released from federal prison for exercising his free speech as a journalist on January 6, 2021.
#4- Due to our daily presence out at the UNM late-term abortion facility, our team was able to document 6 abortion related injuries (in 2023 alone). We also continued our reports exposing New Mexico’s expanding Abortion Clinic Landscape and the radical abortion agenda at the New Mexico Department of Health. Tara was interviewed by local media where Abortion Free New Mexico exposed their unwillingness to promote pro-life resources.
The photo was taken at Sandia Memory Gardens, the only location in New Mexico where aborted babies are buried. Every September we host a memorial service in honor of every unborn life lost to abortion since 1973. This award winning photojournalist did a really good job capturing the heart of our ministry efforts here in New Mexico. Since Roe vs. Wade has been overturned New Mexico has become an abortion magnet for women.
Please keep our ministry efforts in your prayers and if you aren’t already, prayerfully consider supporting Abortion Free New Mexico in 2024!
Albuquerque, NM– Abortion Free New Mexico will be hosting our 3rd Annual Year End Finale for Life Appreciation Fundraising Dinner on November 16, 2023. This year’s guest speaker is Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, a long time friend and mentor of New Mexico’s Pro-Life Missionaries, Bud and Tara Shaver.
In fact, Bud and Tara worked for Operation Rescue before arriving in Albuquerque where they learned how to effectively close down abortion facilities and to bring accountability to an unregulated abortion industry. For many years abortionists were shutting their doors and progress was being made as we exposed this grisly industry.
Unfortunately, abortions are now up 220% in New Mexico and we need some reinforcements and encouragement in this battle we are fighting for life. Please join us for our Year End Finale for Life and support our mission to build a culture of life in New Mexico. If you are unable to attend please make a year end gift to our ministry by clicking HERE.
Operation Rescue® is one of the leading pro-life Christian activist organizations in the U.S. Their goal is to use all legal tools available to us to expose abortion abuses, demand enforcement, save innocent lives, and build an Abortion-Free America.
About our speaker, Troy Newman: Adopted at birth and raised in San Diego, Troy Newman has more than 27 years of experience and leadership in business and pro-life ministry with great success growing Christian organizations. Troy is an accomplished strategist with remarkable insight.
His vision, expertise, and leadership have brought about a dramatic reduction in the numbers of abortions and abortion providers nationally. His work has been featured in the Rolling Stone Magazine, GQ, USA Today, WND.com, Wall Street Journal, the LA Times, NYT, and a host of other print media. Troy is a sought after spokesperson for the pro-life cause who is regularly featured on radio programs and television news broadcasts. In addition, his one-minute audio commentaries are aired daily across the Bott Radio Network. Troy’s unique insights have been published in nearly every newspaper in the United States.
Troy serves on boards for a number of pro-life groups and was a founding board member for the Center for Medical Progress, the organization that has made headlines with its hard-hitting videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s participation in the illegal trafficking of fetal remains.
Troy is a published author of four books: Their Blood Cries Out, Am I Now Your Enemy for Telling You the Truth, Refocusing the Pro-Life Movement for Victory, and his newest book published by WND.com entitled Abortion Free.
As president of Operation Rescue since 1999, Troy offers a rare blend of theological wisdom and organizational strengths. Through his peaceful, proactive efforts, Troy has forged exciting bottom-line results. His work has permanently closed hundreds of abortion mills, led dozens of abortionists leave the killing industry, spared countless babies from abortion, and is changing lives through the public offering of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is especially recognized for his growing success in developing and applying cutting-edge pro-life strategies.
Troy was the architect and innovator of the “Truth Truck” campaign and the “Show the Truth” Tours. Troy worked for eight years in Wichita, KS, to close the nation’s largest late-term abortion clinic.
Troy’s other business interests include real estate development investments and rental properties. Troy’s hobbies are hunting, ranching, and gardening, and he has two Black Belts in Martial Arts. Troy and his wife, Mellissa, homeschool their five children on a small hobby farm in Kansas.
Albuquerque, New Mexico- Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, it is crucial that we continue to mourn the millions of lives lost to abortion, and repent of the national sin of abortion, even as we begin the project of extending legal protection to unborn children in every state we can.
On Saturday, September 10, 2022 pro-life Americans all across the country will honor the memory of the more than 60 million unborn victims of abortion during the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children.
Solemn prayer services will be held simultaneously at gravesites where abortion victims have been buried, as well as at many other memorial sites dedicated in their honor.
Join Abortion Free New Mexico in Albuquerque, at the only location in New Mexico where two aborted children are buried, for the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children and ensure that our unborn brothers and sisters will not be forgotten.
Memorial Service for Victims of Abortion
Saturday Sept. 10 2022
Date & Time Saturday, September 10th, 10:00-11:00am
By participating in the National Day of Remembrance, visiting these solemn memorial places at other times of the year, and spreading the word about this prayer campaign, you are helping to humanize our aborted brothers and sisters and deepening your own commitment to ending the injustice of abortion. The National Day of Remembrance also offers hope and healing to women who have had abortions and others who have been hurt by abortion.
Your prayers and support are making it possible for us to make a big impact in our state. We have been in so many places bringing awareness, discussing the hard topics, equipping volunteers and battling on the frontlines. The highlight of the month was our Sidewalk Counseling Training seminar featuring long time pro-life warrior Don Blythe from At the Well Ministries. Don is the uncle of our late friend Kortney Blythe Gordon who was the inspiration for our prayer campaign No Sidewalk Without the Savior. It was encouraging to hear life saving stories from his ministry and to be better prepared for directly engaging women seeking abortions at the University of New Mexico’s free standing abortion center. August is looking pretty busy already as we inch closer to Election Day in November.
We find comfort in knowing that with God all things are possible for a better New Mexico and we have you to thank for all that God is doing in and through our ministry. May God richly bless you for your partnership.
Abortion Free New Mexico hosted a Sidewalk Counseling Training with Don Blythe of At The Well Ministries this month. Additional guest speakers included: Paula Gonzales executive director of Care Net of Albuquerque and Lydia of Mourning to Joy, Care Net’s post-abortion resource.
Abortion Free New Mexico was a proud sponsor of the Valencia County Freedom Golf Tournament presented by Off The Cuff ABQ Talk Radio! About 70 golfers participated in the inaugural tournament.
Tara joined Becky Harada of Beyond Borders Ministries to discuss the connection between abortion and human trafficking. In this interview Tara is asked how she would dialogue with a woman at an abortion clinic suspected of being a victim of human trafficking. They discuss how the abortion pill may be exploited by human traffickers as it potentially removes the human contact between sex trafficked women and their providers. Tara also shares some of the local pro-life resources readily available to young pregnant moms.
Local pro-life community resources endorsed by Abortion Free New Mexico:
The group “New Mexico Did You Know?” invited Abortion Free New Mexico to their monthly meeting in the East Mountains to share about abortion in our state and what we’re doing about it. It’s always a blessing to inform new people and encourage them to be involved in the battle for precious lives.
No Sidewalk Without the Savior
Our prayer campaign outside the University of New Mexico’s free standing abortion center that performs abortions through 6 months of pregnancy has garnered over 60 volunteers of varying commitments since we launched in April. We still have the need for more volunteers but are thankful that people are praying everyday at this place of death in our city.
Our volunteers have shared with us how the Lord is working in them as they take a stand for life. They tell us that the majority of responses they get are positive by those passing by. In fact, one lady got out of her car, hugged and thanked our volunteers for being there and then brought them water.
Another volunteer told us that people stop and write down or take a picture of the Option Line number we have on our signs that point women to local pregnancy resources. Bud and I are so grateful to those who volunteer one hour every week to be present where abortion seeking women are.
Please join us and see what God will do when you put your faith into action.
For: New leadership to be elected in November. Leaders that will work diligently to protect pregnant moms and their babies in the womb.
For: Any abortion business that comes or tries to come to New Mexico, that they will face obstacles that can’t be overcome and that their businesses don’t flourish but run dry.
For: All Project Weak Link efforts to expose waste disposal companies to be fruitful and for them to stop enabling abortion centers that kill babies.
For: Our prayer campaign No Sidewalk Without the Savior to grow and become a powerful witness within our community.
Albuquerque, New Mexico- In 2006 we made a commitment to the Lord to work to end abortion until Roe v. Wade was overturned or until the Lord called us home with Him. We NEVER imagined that our commitment would be fulfilled in 2022! Even though the end to Roe v. Wade has become a reality, our work to end abortion continues in New Mexico! While many lives will be saved throughout this nation and the healing of our land can begin, our work now is all the more significant.
We humbly ask for your fervent prayers for wisdom, strategy, guidance, provision and protection as we continue to be in the thick of the battle for LIFE here in New Mexico. Praise the Lord, that though we are currently experiencing an oppressive government and wickedness abounds, our God shows His power.
He truly is sovereign and able to do more than we can ask or imagine. THANK YOU for standing with us as New Mexico’s pro-life missionary family.
Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico was featured, the Sunday after Roe was overturned, in an article on the front page of the LA Times, highlighting how New Mexico is ground zero and how we need to support pregnant women in a post Roe America.
Click here if you can’t read the article at the LA Times
Here is an excerpt:
“While abortion advocates consider the coalition a sort of underground railroad for women in crisis, those who oppose the work — such as Tara Shaver, a local antiabortion advocate — say the system affirms Albuquerque’s reputation as the ‘late-term abortion capital of the world.’
On a recent afternoon, Shaver pulled her minivan up to a cemetery plot, called Baby Land, for infants and fetal remains she’d helped arrange with a priest. ‘Naomi Scarlette,’ one of the fetal grave plaques read. ‘June 1, 2017. Your wings were ready, but our hearts were not.
”The term ‘abortion’ has lost all meaning, and this place brings it back,’ Shaver said.’We don’t need to shuttle women into New Mexico. We need to meet these women where they are and provide enough support that they don’t need to choose between their child’s life and their own.’Shaver organized a schedule with other Christians to ensure that at least one person is praying during every operational hour of local abortion clinics.”
Thank you for your continued prayers, support and for standing with us in this battle for LIFE.
Here’s a look at what the Lord has done this month:
Albuquerque, New Mexico-Thank you for your continued prayers and support. Our family is humbled to serve the Lord in New Mexico as pro-life missionaries and to be the voice for the children the Lord loves so much. We couldn’t do this important life saving ministry without you! This month we have continued to light up the darkness with our prayer campaign outside the UNM abortion center, every day at least one person is present but we need more people to sign up for one hour.
We also called for accountability of our elected officials at the city level when two republicans voted to make sure that Planned Parenthood of New Mexico receives $250,000 of our tax dollars. If these republicans had voted against this funding it would have been blocked.
TAKE ACTION: Abortion Free New Mexico urges you to contact councilors Brook Bassan and Trudy Jones to express your disapproval of their actions and to urge them to resign immediately.
This is a prime example why the pro-life pledge we are asking candidates to sign is so vital. So far we have 30 candidates from across the state who have pledged to defend life from conception to natural death. Thanks for standing with us and together we are building a culture that loves life.
“Tara Shaver with Abortion Free New Mexico spoke with American Family News about the quarter-million dollars given to the local abortion provider. According to Shaver, the city of Albuquerque is already facing many crisis situations financially, so she finds it ‘completely absurd’ to reward a non-essential business. The official minutes from the May 16 meeting indicate the city took a half-million dollars from ‘affordable housing’ and gave half of that to Planned Parenthood to free up more of the abortion company’s budget for abortions.”
As Ward 29 Chairman, Bud would like to thank everyone who came to our first ward meeting at Lava Rock Brewing Company. We had an amazing turnout with about 60 people present. There is great potential to flip this district and take New Mexico back from the liberal Democrats.
Abortion Free New Mexico wrapped up another successful month of prayer with our No Sidewalk Without the Savior Campaign. We have our amazing team of volunteers to thank for making sure that each day people were present and praying for an end to abortion at the University of New Mexico. One of our volunteers shared this testimony,
“I need to tell you what happened yesterday when praying at the clinic with Tom. A young lady walked all the way up the hill, started with ‘I am a Christian’ and told us she has 3 kids and just found out she is pregnant. She is barely making it now and is concerned about another baby. Her name is Samantha. Does not want an abortion but… Did not say she is married. We were struck with her concern for the future. We panicked to some extent. It is easy to pray “shut down this clinic” but tough to help someone going thru a real challenge. We prayed with her and gave her one of the resource packets.”
This story demonstrates the importance of being present at the places where women seeking abortions are.
If our team had not been there, this woman wouldn’t have local resources to pursue and she most likely wouldn’t have reached out for prayer because of the shame and stigma that is inevitable for women considering an abortion. It is a blessing to know that when the body of Christ is present opportunities arise and we can be the light in this dark world.
Here’s another sidewalk testimony confirming how Abortion Free New Mexico’s prayerful presence is making a difference:
From a Tuesday Volunteer: “A gentleman pulled up to the stop sign and called out to us telling us that he was not going to abort his baby, that he was going to keep his baby. He then did the sign of the cross and seemed so full of joy.”
Join us tomorrow for Faith To Action Friday as we collectively come together to put our faith into action outside the UNM abortion center.
You’re Invited to Pray & to Stand Up For Life at the University of New Mexico’s free standing abortion facility.
Friday June 3, 2022
Time: 10-11am
Location: UNM Center for Reproductive Health (2301 Yale Blvd. SE. in Albuquerque.) Use street parking on Renard.
This month, Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico joined Owen Shroyer on the Infowars War Room to discuss how Late (Third Trimester) Full-Term abortions are not a conspiracy theory but a tragic reality. New Mexico is the proof. She also pointed out that in light of Roe v Wade being overturned that New Mexico will continue to be ground zero for all abortions and abortion tourism.
“Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico has been fighting abortions in America for years, she is now attempting to end abortion in New Mexico. Tara Shaver joins Owen to discuss her pro-life activism in New Mexico and what she sees ahead as Roe v Wade will soon be overturned.” Infowars War Room
Albuquerque, New Mexico- [UPDATED] Abortion Free New Mexico is pleased to release its most up to date list of candidates who will appear on the June 7, 2022 New Mexico primary ballot who have signed a simple yet solid pro-life pledge. This pledge serves as a tangible declaration that defending life is a priority to each candidate that signs it. It is an assurance for the voter to know where each candidate stands on the most fundamental right we are endowed by our Creator with, the right to life.
If you are currently running for office in New Mexico and have not signed our Pro-Life Pledge, there is still time! Click HERE and follow the instructions. (We will update this list as candidates sign!)
While Abortion Free New Mexico can not endorse candidates, we strongly urge support of these candidates with your vote, your time and by making a donation to their campaign. This election year it is crucial for New Mexico to elect new leaders to represent we the people across the state. With the potential of Roe v. Wade being overturned, New Mexico is poised as ground zero for abortions because we have no laws protecting women and children from the horrors and heartache of abortion.
Abortion Free New Mexico is committed to let you know who stands for life and just as Planned Parenthood pledges support for their candidates who oppose life, the pro-life community must get in the battle to save New Mexico and future generations.
Abortion Free New Mexico’s Pro-Life Pledge states:
“I pledge to defend life from conception to natural death. In making and keeping this pledge, I am committed to ending all abortion and all assisted suicide in the state of New Mexico.”
Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico issued the following statement,
“We are encouraged to have so many candidates sign Abortion Free New Mexico’s pro-life pledge to defend life from conception until natural death. We have worked hard over the years to encourage all of the candidates to boldly stand for life. We are thankful that so many candidates in virtually every elected office are not shying away from boldly declaring their pro-life position. These candidates are proud to stand for life and we stand with them for a better New Mexico. Together we are a stronger voice for those who have none.
Let your voice be heard on Primary election day, Tuesday June 7th at these Bernalillo County locations. Early voting ends on June 4th, click here to find your statewide voting location.
Primary Election: 2022 New Mexico Candidate Pro-Life Pledge Signers
New Mexico 2022 Gubernatorial Candidate Pledge Signers on the Primary Ballot
TARA SHAVER ON LOCAL NEW MEXICO SHOW: THE PARADIGM SHIFT HOSTED BY JP
Big night on The Paradigm Shift Tonight… Guest, Tara Shaver from http://abortionfreenm.com joins us as she and her husband, Bud Shaver, fight the good fight ridding of the practice of abortion in New Mexico. New Mexico is becoming a hot spot for abortion and the kids NEED YOUR HELP. Join us… http://studiojfm.com.
Albuquerque, New Mexico– Thank you for continuing to lift us up in prayer, for your encouragement and your support. With your help and God’s provision, our family is doing everything we can to change the direction of our state. Just when we think we couldn’t possibly add one more thing to our plate, the Lord opens the door for new opportunities.
This month, we have been blessed with the ability to work at the grassroots level to not only pray and be a light in the darkness but to be proactive in our community as salt to help elect good leadership and preserve our God given rights. Please join us in our efforts if you are local and if not please continue to pray that New Mexicans want a change in leadership that will represent our conservative values and will fight for them.
Between now and November we will give it our all for a better New Mexico, as we also raise our children to love the Lord and to love the mission field that we have been called to serve.
You are a blessing to the moms, babies and future generations we are working to protect. Thank you for making our efforts possible. God bless you!
BREAKING: UNM PAYS FAMILY $365,000 FOR NEGLIGENT REFERRAL IN ABORTION DEATH CASE
As reported by Operation Rescue-The University of New Mexico has settled a negligent referral case with the family of Keisha Atkins, who died on February 4, 2017, as the result of a septic abortion she obtained at Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico. UNM agreed to pay $365,000 for referring Atkins to Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO) for an elective 24-week induction abortion that killed her. Operation Rescue first learned of Atkin’s abortion death after Abortion Free New Mexico received a tip that Atkins had died as the result of an abortion. Abortion Free New Mexico requested and received Atkin’s autopsy report then consulted with Operation Rescue over the confusing determination that she died from her pregnancy, not the abortion.
However, once the autopsy report was analyzed, it became obvious that the listed cause of death was untrue, and that UNM, which conducted Atkins’ autopsy, was attempting to cover up for SWO’s apparent negligence as well as their own liability in the tragedy. Over five years after Keisha Atkins’ avoidable death, attorneys with Abortion On Trial, who discovered more information about Atkins’ death and ensuing cover-up, were eventually able to reach a settlement agreement with UNM.
Successful Launch of No Sidewalk Without the Savior: Every Day Covered, Next Goal Every Hour!
On April 1, 2022 we launched our prayer initiative, “No Sidewalk Without the Savior” at the Isleta Church of Christ: Iglesia De Cristo which is he closest church, located 0.5 mile away, from the UNM Center for Reproductive Health- UNMCRH late-term abortion facility. Together we gathered for collective prayer & speakers, and prayer walked to the UNMCRH abortion facility.
In Matthew 18:20 Jesus tells us that, “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
No Sidewalk Without the Savior is an effort to make sure that two people are prayerfully present outside of the UNM Center for Reproductive Health abortion facility every hour that they are open. When the body of Christ is present and available, God is able to open hearts and minds to the reality of what is happening in our community and to also bring conviction to the women seeking abortions there. Abortion Free New Mexico is asking the pro-life community to come together and volunteer for just a one-hour weekly or monthly commitment at a location where the hope of Christ is so desperately needed.
During the first month of our prayer campaign, “No Sidewalk Without the Savior,” we are grateful to our volunteers and day coordinators who helped to make sure that the UNM late-term abortion facility had a prayerful presence every DAY they were open! Our next goal is to have prayer every HOUR that they are open. It’s going to take a small army to accomplish this but our God is able. Volunteers Needed.
Knowledge is Power Forum
This month, Abortion Free New Mexico was grateful for the opportunity to present information at the “Knowledge is Power Forum” hosted by Off The Cuff ABQ Talk Radio to state and local Albuquerque candidates. It was a great opportunity to bring these candidates up to date on the abortion crisis we now face in the absence of pro-life laws.
To Build a Culture of Life in New Mexico, you have to be where the people are! This month Abortion Free New Mexico represented our Pro-Life Values at the South Valley Pride Day 2022 with Options Beyond Adoption and Off The Cuff ABQ Talk Radio. This was a well attended parade and community event in celebration of Albuquerque’s South Valley.
Pro-Life Training Seminar
Abortion Free New Mexico’s Pro-Life Training Seminar hosted at Providence Presbyterian Church this month was a huge success! Special thanks to our wonderful guest speakers: Doug Abrams of Casa De Mariposa, Rita Rodriguez of Options Beyond Adoption and Clarence Washington Sr. Author of, “Hijacked! How Dr. King’s Dream Became a Nightmare”.
Visit AbortionFreeNM.com for our latest updates, investigative reports and learn how you can get involved locally.
There is a place for everybody in the Pro-Life Movement.
Bud is pleased to announce that he has been appointed as the Republican Party of Bernalillo County, Ward Chairman of District 29.
Bud Shaver issued the following statement,
“My wife Tara and I are known for our pro-life ministry efforts and for several years now have worked diligently to support candidates in various ways. Whether serving on campaigns, or going door-to-door we have supported and worked for Republican candidates. I am excited to serve our Ward through recruiting, holding meetings, hosting events and ultimately working to make sure that Republicans are elected in our district.”
Faith to Action Friday (May 6, 2022)
The University of New Mexico- UNM is at the heart of the abortion cartel in New Mexico, as a publicly funded institution UNM performs late-term abortions up to 6 month, consistently promotes a culture of death and is actively training the next generation of abortionists.
Join us for Prayer & Stand Up For Life at the University of New Mexico’s free standing abortion facility.
Friday May 6, 2022
Time: 10-11am
Location: UNM Center for Reproductive Health (2301 Yale Blvd. SE. in Albuquerque.) Use street parking on Renard.
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Thank you for your continued prayers, support and for standing with us in this battle for LIFE.
Albuquerque, New Mexico– The weather is warming up and we have been just as busy as ever. We know that the battle for life in New Mexico requires time, commitment and a variety of strategies in multiple areas. As pro-life missionaries we are laying it all on the line in order to be a voice for the voiceless and to advance God’s kingdom as we put our faith into action. We are building a pro-life army and we need your help. Please consider hosting a pro-life movie screening of the film Voiceless and also be sure to sign up at our website to pray for an hour outside one of our cities darkest places, where the light of Christ is so desperately needed. EVERY life is worth it. Thank you for standing with us through your prayers, support and mighty words of encouragement. God Bless You!
REPORT: New Mexico Leads The Nation With The Highest Percentage Of Late Term Abortions
The Republican Party of New Mexico shared our report across all social media platforms!
According to the most recent data, published in 2019 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), New Mexico unfortunately leads the nation with the highest percentage of late-term abortions. The CDC report, “Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2019” published on November 26, 2021 confirms what Abortion Free New Mexico has been sounding the alarm on for many years…
Great turnout to Abortion Free New Mexico’s screening of the Pro-Life Movie to Movement movie, Voiceless. Special guest speakers included Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico, Michele Beglau of Silent No More Awareness, Felicia Stone who went undercover at 37 weeks pregnant (watch the undercover footage featured at AbortionFreeNM.com), Patrick Garr whose family adopted two children, Jennifer Ward of Care Net, and Doug Abrams of Casa De Mariposa.
We would like to thank all of the sponsors and volunteers who helped to make this a huge success!
This month, Abortion Free New Mexico continued to partner with Off The Cuff ABQ Talk Radio hosting a pro-life resource table and voter registration at community events. We joined Bo Diddley Jr. and Duke City Pix at the Chola Calendar Release Car Show in the South Valley of Albuquerque.
The Spanish speaking “Isleta Church of Christ: Iglesia De Cristo” is the closest church (0.5 mile) from the UNM Center for Reproductive Health Late-Term abortion facility. After reaching out to, fellowshipping with and sharing a presentation with them about Abortion In New Mexico and our new initiative, “No Sidewalk Without the Savior” launching on April 1, 2022 they enthusiastically agreed to partner with us!
“No Sidewalk Without the Savior” Prayer Initiative Launching April 1, 2022
In Matthew 18:20 Jesus tells us that, “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” No Sidewalk Without the Savior is an effort to make sure that two people are prayerfully present outside of the UNM Center for Reproductive Health abortion facility every hour that they are open. When the body of Christ is present and availible, God is able to open hearts and minds to the reality of what is happening in our community and to also bring conviction to the women seeking abortions there. Abortion Free New Mexico is asking the pro-life community to come together and volunteer for just a one-hour weekly or monthly commitment at a location where the hope of Christ is so desperately needed.
Will you join us to make sure that No Sidewalk is without the Savior? SIGN UP for one hour
Since April 1st is the launch date for our new initiative and it coincides with Faith to Action Friday, we will gather first at Isleta Church of Christ for collective prayer & speakers, then we will take a short prayer walk together to the UNMCRH abortion facility.
Time: 10-11am
Location: Meet at the parking lot of Isleta Church of Christ: Iglesia De Cristo located at 2424 Miles Rd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106.
Event Details: 10AM for prayer, special speakers and a short (0.5 mile) prayer walk to the UNM Center For Reproductive Health abortion facility concluding at 11AM.
Your monthly and one time donations enable us to do this life saving work full-time. Click here if you would like to donate securely online. We use Cornerstone Payment Systems as a Christian alternative to Paypal. Also, now offering an e-check option.
Thank you for your continued prayers, support and for standing with us in this battle for LIFE.
By Bud Shaver, Albuquerque, New Mexico- Join Abortion Free New Mexico on Friday, April 1st for the launch of our new prayer initiative, “No Sidewalk Without the Savior, which coincides with Faith to Action Friday, outside of the University of New Mexico’s free standing abortion facility, UNM Center for Reproductive Health (UNMCRH). This facility performs late term abortions up to 24 weeks (6 months) of pregnancy.
The Spanish speaking “Isleta Church of Christ: Iglesia De Cristo” is the closest church (0.5 mile) from the UNM Center for Reproductive Health late-term abortion facility. After reaching out to, fellowshipping with and sharing a presentation with them about abortion in New Mexico and this new prayer initiative, “No Sidewalk Without the Savior” they enthusiastically agreed to allow us to meet on their property.
Since April 1st is the launch date for this new initiative and it coincides with Faith to Action Friday we will gather first at Isleta Church of Christ for collective prayer & speakers, then we will take a short prayer walk together to the UNMCRH abortion facility.
Join us for Faith to Action Friday & Launch of, “No Sidewalk Without the Savior”
Event Details: 10AM for prayer, special speakers and a short (0.5 mile) prayer walk to the UNM Center For Reproductive Health abortion facility concluding at 11AM.
In Matthew 18:20 Jesus tells us that, “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” Will you join us on the sidewalk at one of the darkest places in Albuquerque?
“No Sidewalk Without the Savior” is an effort to make sure that two people are prayerfully present outside of the UNM Center for Reproductive Health abortion facility every hour that they are open, because where two or three gather in the name of Jesus, He is present in their midst. When the body of Christ is present and availible, God is able to open hearts and minds to the reality of what is happening in our community and to also bring conviction to the women seeking abortions there.
Abortion Free New Mexico is asking the pro-life community to come together and volunteer for just a one-hour weekly or monthly commitment at a location where the hope of Christ is so desperately needed. Will you join us to make sure that Jesus Christ is brought the sidewalk at one of Albuquerque’s darkest places? Can YOU spare one hour and bring a friend or family member out to simply pray for the moms considering abortion and the precious babies in their wombs?
“Over the years we have had countless women come and tell us that because we were present, they chose life. Your presence is sometimes the sign that these women are looking for when they go for an abortion. You are essential and your prayers are necessary to make our city and state Abortion Free,” stated Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico- According to the most recent data, published in 2019 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), New Mexico unfortunately leads the nation with the highest percentage of late-term abortions. In other words, late-term abortions represent 11.6% of all abortions performed in New Mexico. TABLE 10 of the CDC Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2019 report shows that New Mexico performed 406 late-term abortions (over 21 weeks gestation) which was 11.6% of the total number of abortions performed in the state (3,485) that year. By comparison, of the 43 states that met the CDC’s reporting requirements, (Nine states, California, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York State, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin either did not report, did not report by gestational age, or did not meet reporting standards) Florida performed the most abortions according to TABLE 10 with 71,914 in 2019, however, 217 or 0.3% of the total number of abortions performed in Florida were over 21 weeks gestation.
Since 2010, Abortion Free New Mexico leaders Bud and Tara Shaver have reported (and coined the designation) that Albuquerque, New Mexico is the, “late-term abortion capital of the country” based on the groundbreaking research and undercover investigations that they have conducted. Virtually every major news source in the country has reported on this fact.
The New York Times was one of the earliest to report that Albuquerque, New Mexico is known as the “late-term abortion capital of the country” in 2013:
Albuquerque has become the latest flash point in the abortion wars, with Operation Rescue, the militant group based in Kansas, calling it the “late-term abortion capital of the country.” This is because a private clinic, Southwestern Women’s Options, is one of only a few nationwide that offers abortions after the sixth month of pregnancy. The drive for a city referendum has been led here by a couple who trained with Operation Rescue in Kansas and moved here three years ago as anti-abortion “missionaries.” “We felt called to come and serve in Albuquerque,” said Tara Shaver, 29. She and her husband, Bud, moved here largely to find a way to shut down Southwestern Women’s Options, she said.
The CDC report Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2019 published on November 26, 2021 confirms what Abortion Free New Mexico has been sounding the alarm on for many years.
It is important to note that while New Mexico performed the second highest number (406) of late-term abortions in 2019 behind New York City (1,096) only 2.2 percent of the total number of abortions performed (49,784) in New York City were late-term abortions. Additionally, according to a survey conducted by Abortion Free New Mexico, in conjunction with this report, no abortion clinic in the entire state of New York will perform an abortion beyond 24 weeks gestation. New Mexico on the other hand will perform full-term abortions up to the day of birth. In fact, Abortion Free New Mexico conducted an undercover investigation in 2017 that revealed that late-term abortionists at Southwestern Women’s Options located in Albuquerque, New Mexico will perform a full-term abortion at 37 weeks of pregnancy.
The designation that Albuquerque, New Mexico is the “late-term abortion capital of the country” takes into consideration not only the high number of late-term abortions performed after 20-21 weeks gestation, but also the fact that New Mexico has become the hub for abortion tourism where women travel to New Mexico for full-term abortions well into the third trimester because their state has either:
Enacted common sense legislation prohibiting late-term abortions, or
As is the case with the handful of radically pro-abortion states, where there aren’t necessarily laws restricting abortions, abortionists regulate themselves by refusing to perform abortions beyond a certain point.
For example, while New York performs abortions over 21 weeks gestation, women travel from New York to New Mexico to obtain third trimester abortions. In fact, in 2013 Abortion Free New Mexico leaders, with the help of Operation Rescue brought national attention to the fact that a woman was severely injured after traveling from New York to obtain an abortion at 35 weeks gestation at Southwestern Women’s Options, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Southwestern Women’s Southwestern Women’s Options, owned and operated by Curtis Boyd who specializes in third trimester abortions, is drawing women from all across the nation, and even the world, for the latest possible full-term abortions. Disturbingly, Albuquerque based late-term abortionist, Curtis Boyd, takes great pride in this. A fact that he openly admitted when asked in a 2017 interview,
So when he’s asked about what he thinks when he hears Albuquerque described as “the late-term abortion capital of the nation”—a term the Shavers take credit for coining—Boyd responds wryly. “A great sense of pride,” he says.
It is necessary to note that both Maryland and Colorado are also destinations for third-trimester abortions, however Maryland did not meet the CDC reporting requirements and according to the CDC data, Colorado performed 173 late-term abortions (1.3 percent of the total abortion rate) in 2019 compared to 406 late-term abortions performed in New Mexico.
Late-term abortions are performed over a 3-4 day period. It includes an injection into the mother’s womb on the first day which causes a fetal heart attack. Over the course of the next few days, the cervix is artificially dilated so that the mother can be induced to deliver her stillborn child. This is called the induction method and occurs at an out patient clinic setting or in a local hotel. Late-term abortions are never performed when the mother’s life is at risk, the procedure alone takes too much time to benefit a woman who is in a dire situation. In fact, this abortion method has many risks and is responsible for the death of at least one local New Mexico woman, Keisha Atkins in 2017. A late-term abortion in New Mexico can cost as much as $17,000.
The University of New Mexico (UNM) also performs late-term abortions up to 24 weeks of pregnancy at their free standing abortion facility in Albuquerque, NM. This location in particular is the the focus of Abortion Free New Mexico’s “No Sidewalk Without the Savior” prayer campaign that is launching on April 1, 2022. For more information and to sign up click here.
Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico issued the following statement,
“New Mexico currently has zero laws protecting pregnant women and their unborn babies from dangerous and barbaric late-term abortions. It is the absence of laws and the unwillingness of our legislators to come to the table to seek the wellbeing of both mother and child that has made us an abortion magnet, even in the latest stages of pregnancy. Abortion Free New Mexico is working many angles to build a culture that protects life, because every life is unique, precious and unrepeatable.”
Albuquerque, New Mexico– Thank you for making all of our efforts here in the beautiful state of New Mexico possible and we would like to welcome our new subscribers! When we arrived in 2010 as pro-life missionaries, we never imagined how the Lord would move to awaken hearts and minds to life. Nor did we think that so much could be accomplished to build a culture of life and preserve the lives of the most vulnerable in our communities: Babies in the Womb. We are humbled to serve and are excited to share with you our next steps. This month we were busy lighting up the darkness, being active politically by encouraging New Mexico’s statewide 2022 candidates to sign our pro-life pledge and standing up for our freedoms.
As you will see we have a powerful movie screening coming up as well as a new prayer initiative launching on April 1st. In the absence of pro-life laws, being strategic and being unified is key. Every step forward helps us reach our goal of an Abortion Free state. God bless you all.
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Upcoming Event: Save The Date
Please Join us for a free screening of the movie Voiceless on March 12th from 2-5pm at Transformation Epicenter (click here for Google Map directions). We will have dessert, a silent auction, powerful personal testimonies and learn about local pregnancy resources. Proceeds benefit No Sidewalk Without the Savior.
The trailer to this powerful movie can be viewed here
Announcing, “No Sidewalk Without The Savior”
We are committed to continue our work to make New Mexico Abortion Free, as we increase our efforts in Albuquerque by establishing a stronger pro-life presence in our city. “No Sidewalk Without The Savior” is one way we can accomplish this and is currently being organized, by our amazing volunteers, as a month to month prayer initiative-launching on April 1st. The goal is to have two people praying every hour that the UNM Center for Reproductive Health is open, because we believe in the power of prayer to change hearts and minds. Have you ever thought about what the very last line of defense is for the baby in the womb who is scheduled to die? It lies with those who faithfully stand on the sidewalks ready and armed with love and resources.
If you would like to be a a part of this prayerful presence, for just one hour, please sign up here.
If you are not able to give of your time, please sponsor someone who can by making a donation here for our latest sidewalk prayer initiative.
IN THE NEWS THIS MONTH:
Support the People’s Convoy Overpass Meetup hosted by Abortion Free New Mexico brought nearly 200 people out to greet the trucker convoy on their way to Washington D.C. We The People stood united for freedom.
“It’s time to restore our nation’s constitution and to mandate freedom. Abortion Free New Mexico stands in solidarity with the People’s Convoy and supports their peaceful and unified transcontinental movement,” stated Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico
This month Abortion Free New Mexico collaborated with New Mexico Peacekeepers in chalking at the University of New Mexico- UNM to urge the students to be “Wolves Not Sheep” (UNM mascot is a lobo wolf) and wrote messages of truth about health freedom.
This month we were able to have a table at the Republican Party of Bernalillo County “Ignite the Fire Rally” at Legacy Church in Albuquerque and educate about how we are working to build a culture of life in our state.
This month our family attended the Republican Party of New Mexico Pre-Primary Convention as delegates. We were proud to support the many candidates who signed our pro-life pledge.
REMINDER: Faith to Action Friday (March 4th), 1st Friday of the month (10AM-11AM) Location: UNM Center for Reproductive Health (2301 Yale Blvd. SE. in Albuquerque.) Use street parking on Renard.
Thank you for your continued prayers, support and for standing with us in this battle for LIFE.
Albuquerque, New Mexico- “No Sidewalk Without the Savior,” is a new ministry effort of Abortion Free New Mexico. We believe in the power of prayer to change hearts and minds, as we reflect the love of Jesus by extending grace and truth, at our city’s darkest and most hopeless places, abortion facilities. When two or more of God’s people gather for prayer, Our Savior is present and is able to light up the darkness and bring hope. (Matthew 18:20)
The namesake of this initiative is in honor of our late friend and fellow pro-life abolitionist, Kortney Blythe Gordon. Kortney was the leader of our team while we served with the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, where Tara and I began our pro-life journey, and her passion for pro-life activism was contagious. Kortney loved the Lord, His children and couldn’t wait to become a mom herself. Her dream came true when she married and conceived her daughter, Sophy (named in honor of Sophie Scholl). Tragically, she and Sophy went to be with the Lord after being hit by a drunk driver, while pregnant. Kortney told us that if she had her own sidewalk ministry, “No Sidewalk Without the Savior” is what she would call it. This has stuck with us all of these years and we are proud to honor her memory in this very special way.
“No Sidewalk Without the Savior” is being organized as a month to month prayer initiative where our goal is to have two people praying every hour that the UNM Center for Reproductive Health is open. Abortion Free New Mexico is utilizing day coordinators to recruit prayer volunteers, and there is still a great need for coordinators as the goal is to launch this prayerful presence on April 1, 2022.
We are committed to continue our work to make New Mexico Abortion Free, as we increase our efforts in Albuquerque, by establishing a stronger pro-life presence in our city.
Albuquerque is home to three surgical abortion facilities, Planned Parenthood, Southwestern Women’s Options and the University of New Mexico (UNM). Over the past decade we have worked to expose the fact that Southwestern Women’s Options is performing late-term abortions through all nine months of pregnancy. In fact, New Mexico has the national notorious reputation as, “The Late-Term Abortion Capital of the Country,” a designation we coined. As a result, there is a faithful sidewalk advocacy presence there, and thankfully CareNet brings their mobile ultrasound unit there weekly to help reach abortion minded women. Planned Parenthood in known as the nation’s largest abortion provider and is home to 40 Days For Life twice a year. In addition, the Catholic pro-life organization, Women’s Pregnancy Options (formerly known as Project Defending Life) is located next door and has a faithful sidewalk advocacy presence throughout the rest of the year.
However, the University of New Mexico (UNM) has been flying under the radar with a minimal pro-life advocacy presence (only our Faith To Action Friday presence once a month). Unbeknownst to many, the University of New Mexico runs its own free standing abortion facility, UNM Center For Reproductive Health, that performs late-term abortions up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, that’s 6 months! As a tax funded institution, UNM has an endless supply of our tax dollars to fund their radical abortion agenda. In fact, according to our research, UNM is the heart of the abortion cartel here in New Mexico and in a shocking admission, openly celebrates abortion!
“This year Abortion Free New Mexico wants to organize a constant prayerful presence starting with the UNM Center for Reproductive Health abortion facility for every hour that they are open. This is one of the darkest places in our city, but it can become a beacon of hope as Christians rise up to be a voice for the voiceless and their mothers. Will you partner with us in 2022 to make this a reality?” stated Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico.
Abortion Free New Mexico is hosting a free movie screening of the Movie to Movement Film, “Voiceless.”The trailer to this powerful movie can be viewed below. Please help us make this informative screening a success by bringing others with you and by sharing this email.
Movie Trailer: “Voiceless is about a young, reserved, war veteran, who moves to Philadelphia to take a new ministry job and puts his life on the line to stand against an abortion clinic that moved across the street from the church.”
Albuquerque, New Mexico– It is truly a blessing to serve as New Mexico’s pro-life missionary family alongside all of you who know how important it is to fight for the future generations of our state and our nation. Without your support, we couldn’t do this work to help moms find hope, build a culture that loves life and expose the abortion industry’s dirtiest secrets. Your prayers and support make our efforts possible and this month we have thought alot about what more we can do to save babies lives from abortion in New Mexico.
The Lord has given us many ideas to pursue as you will read about below and we are praying that passionate people just like you will join our team and get involved in 2022. Now more than ever we need to come together to be strategic, to be boots on the ground, to support pro-life candidates and to overcome evil with good in our communities.
Thank you for standing with us, may God bless you for your faithful prayers and support. To God alone be the glory!
Together we are building an Abortion Free New Mexico.
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Abortion Free New Mexico Leaders Elected as Delegates!
It’s official, Abortion Free New Mexico leaders Bud and Tara Shaver were just elected as delegates at the Republican Party of Bernalillo County Pre-Primary Convention! We can now cast our votes for great candidates at the New Mexico Republican State Primary Convention in February who share our conservative values and who have signed our pro-life pledge.
Abortion Free New Mexico’s Pro-Life Pledge states:
“I pledge to defend life from conception to natural death. In making and keeping this pledge, I am committed to ending all abortion and all assisted suicide in the state of New Mexico.”
IN THE NEWS THIS MONTH:
Abortion Free New Mexico Whistleblower Investigations Named #1 Top Pro-Life Reports of 2021
“Abortion Free New Mexico was one of the first national groups to sound the alarm regarding the experimental COVID-19 injections and the risks posed to pregnant women and their babies. It is now common knowledge that there are major concerns about these shots, except among those who are willfully turning a blind eye to what is clearly unfolding before us,” stated Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico.
Abortion Free New Mexico is joining forces with NM Peacekeepers and New Mexico Freedom Fighters to Protest The University of New Mexico – UNM and Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s anti-science, anti-bodily autonomy, unconstitutional MANDATES! Unity in Diversity is our Strength.
It’s time to Lead. Follow. Or, get out of the way. Dinah Vargas of Off The Cuff ABQ Talk Radio and Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico at the San-Bern Federation of Republican Women.
By Bud Shaver,
Albuquerque, New Mexico-When we moved to New Mexico in 2010 there were 8 abortion facilities. Today 5 remain, but one will be closing within a matter of months, Lord willing. After years of a concentrated faithful pro-life presence along with savvy investigative work, accountability and high pressure public exposure, Franz Theard’s abortion days are numbered.Our friends in the borderland at the Southwest Coalition for Life announced at the end of last year that Franz Theard’s current landlord does not plan to renew his current lease. This means that he will likely be forced to close his killing business and retire. This will be an amazing victory, and will prove that hard work and perseverance pays off in the battle for life in New Mexico.
“According to New Mexico vital statistics the abortion rate among New Mexico residents is on the decline. This affirms that as our efforts to expose the horrors of the abortion industry and reach out to women in crisis, New Mexico women are rejecting abortion and choosing life. That being said, as more New Mexico women are rejecting abortion, Albuquerque is GROUND ZERO for late-term abortion and is home to three surgical abortion facilities in New Mexico. One of which is run by the University of New Mexico and funded by our tax dollars,” stated Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico.
As effective as our efforts have been over the past decade to expose late-term abortion in Albuquerque, in 2022 we are redoubling our efforts to expose New Mexico’s flagship institution and leading hospital’s radical abortion agenda. University of New Mexico leadership needs to hear a louder voice in opposition to this agenda and the community at large deserves to know the truth about how their tax dollars are being spent to prop up the abortion industry.
Albuquerque is home to the University of New Mexico (UNM), which runs its own free standing abortion facility, UNM Center For Reproductive Health, that performs late-term abortions up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, that’s 6 months! As a tax funded institution, UNM has an endless supply of our tax dollars to fund their radical abortion agenda. In fact, according to our research, UNM is the heart of the abortion cartel here in New Mexico and in a shocking admission, openly celebrates abortion!
According to UNM regent Robert Schwartz,
“I don’t want to leave the impression that the UNM Center for Reproductive Health is just being tolerated by the University, when in fact it is an important part of this University and the Health Sciences Center and it is and it should be celebrated by this University.”
Abortion Free New Mexico holds a monthly prayer vigil, Faith To Action Friday, on site at this facility but now it’s time to take it to the next level.We want to build a team so that we can do even more in 2022. We are upping our game in Albuquerque so that we can reach more moms with the hope and resources they need to choose life.
A constant prayerful presence at Franz Theard’s abortion facilities, organized by the Southwest Coalition for Life, has been powerful and effective in making sure that every woman knows she has options but it has also served to bring community awareness and has definitely caused the current landlord to want to terminate Theard’s lease. We need to get Albuquerque’s clinics covered in the same way and to pray for the same outcome in the late term abortion capital of the nation.ANNOUNCEMENT: This year, in 2022, Abortion Free New Mexico wants to organize a constant prayerful presence starting with the UNM Center for Reproductive Health abortion facility for every hour that they are open. This is one of the darkest places in our city but it can become a beacon of hope as Christians rise up to be a voice for the voiceless and their mothers. Will you partner with us to make this a reality? We’re reaching out to you because we have big plans but we know that we can’t accomplish anything without your help and support.If you are looking to get more involved in 2022 we’d like to ask you to fill out our get involved form and tell us where you’d like to serve.
We need day coordinators that will help us recruit people to be out on the sidewalk for 1 hour shifts, we will also need volunteers to simply sign up for one hour increments. We’re also looking for help in other areas. This just the beginning of making 2022 our best year yet and in making sure that every woman has the resources she needs to make a decision for life. There is so much more that we can do in 2022 with your help. We are committed to continue our work to make New Mexico Abortion Free, as we increase our efforts in Albuquerque by establishing a stronger pro-life presence in our city.We know that the moms and babies that we fight so hard for are worthy of protection because every life is God’s masterpiece.Let’s work together to build a culture of life in New Mexico.With you on our team we will be able to do so much more in our city to help moms, save babies, educate the community and be a shining light in the darkness.
Bud and Tara ShaverWe will begin holding planning/vision casting meetings. Please fill out our survey so we know how you would like to be involved and your availability to attend such a meeting.
If you want to join Abortion Free New Mexico’s volunteer team please click the button above (or here)
Albuquerque, New Mexico- Thank you so much for your prayers and support in 2021, it has been another blessed year of service to our Lord here in Albuquerque, NM. In spite of all of the chaos the Lord has done a mighty work in and through us. He has enabled us to remain faithful on this mission field and as a result we have seen mountains moved.
Your prayers have been answered as the pro-life community becomes more unified and as candidates rise up to run for office. The “Heroes Work Here” banner did come down and pro-life city councilors who signed our pro-life pledge will now govern our city. We look forward to the fruit that will come from our Project Weak Linkefforts in 2022 as well as all that God has in store.
Here’s a peek at our top 10 highlights of 2021. You are essential and we couldn’t do this important work without you. God bless you in the new year and always!
2021 Year In Review: Top 10 Highlights
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Overturn Roe Prayer Rally held in Albuquerque, the late term abortion capital of the nation.
We asked for the “Heroes Work Here” banner to be removed and it finally came down, because abortionists are not heroes. Unfortunately, UNM celebrates abortion, according to Regent.
Project Weak Link produces results, Monarch stops doing business with Chris Morton of New Mexico Waste Recovery. Our investigation also reveals violations against Planned Parenthood New Mexico.
COVID-19 Whistleblower reports reveal that COVID shots cause harm, especially to babies in the womb. Now this information is common knowledge thanks to our reporting and whistleblower findings.
We partnered With Off The Cuff ABQ Talk Radio and Dinah Vargas both on and off the airwaves holding block parties and building a culture of life across Albuquerque.
Unprecedented number of candidates sign our Pro-Life Pledge from Mayoral, Gubernatorial, Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, NM Treasurer, U.S. Congress, NM House of Representatives, School Board and City Council. (Pictured are 2022 candidates that signed)
Our efforts make local & national news which helps us spread the pro-life message nationwide.
(April 7, 2021) Tara Shaver was on Info Wars to discuss the current state of abortions in New Mexico, and how a culture of tourism to Albuquerque has led to a skyrocketing rise in abortion since the pandemic began.
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Enoch joined our family in April. Every life is God’s masterpiece and brings so much joy into the world. We love him so much!
We are a Christian missionary family serving in Albuquerque, NM. Putting our faith into action, for the past 10 years we have exposed Albuquerque as the late term abortion capital of the nation and have worked to bring accountability to an unregulated abortion industry that is killing children in their mothers wombs up to the day of birth.
In order to be the most effective in our pro-life ministry, we do this important work full time while homeschooling our children and raising them to have a biblical worldview. We rely solely on the provision of the Lord and individuals like you to provide for our daily needs.
We are pursuing and working toward an abortion free New Mexico, where every pre-born child is valued and protected. We would be blessed to have you partner with us in this ministry.
You can be a blessing for life in New Mexico by becoming a partner with us in our ministry.
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2021 Year In Review Slideshow Look at what the Lord has done in 2021. Together we are building an Abortion Free New Mexico. Thank you for standing with us for LIFE!
