Faith, Policy, and Reproductive Healthcare: In the Wake of a Forced Migration Crisis

Throughout this paper, I explore the moral imperative and spiritual obligation of reproductive justice seekers and Denver organizers to advocate and organize for migrants in the wake of Donald Trump’s reelection and promise to enact the largest deportation this country has ever seen. As a Latine social ethicist, I engage liberative, faith-aware ethical frameworks drawn from the tenets of Latin American social ethics: lo cotidiano, el acompañamiento, and doing ethics en conjunto. I argue that because of our culturally Catholic upbringing and lived experiences as migrants or children of immigrants ourselves, organizers like me hold epistemological privileges in advocating for these communities at the legislative level. We are the trusted messengers.