For many self-described religious Democrats, squaring their support for abortion and radical gender ideology with their faith is a challenge. But at Texas Democrat James Talarico&#8217;s church, supporting abortions is part of the congregation&#8217;s &#8220;goals for the world.&#8221;
At the Texas church where the Democrat senate hopeful preaches sermons on the need for abortion in the “trans community,” church funds are sent not only to abortion giant Planned Parenthood, but also to radical organizations that pay to help facilitate out-of-state travel for women to kill their unborn babies, and an organization that runs a summer camp for transgender-identifying kids as young as 11. 
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, the woke Austin church attended by Talarico, <a href="https://www.staopen.org/benevolences">lists</a> Planned Parenthood, which ends the lives of hundreds of thousands of unborn babies every year, as one of the organizations that shares its “vision and goals for the world.”
The church, which The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-book-is-gay-read-the-sexually-explicit-volumes-james-talaricos-church-gives-kids?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=8&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘God+Is+Queer’%3A+See+The+Sexually+Explicit+Books+James+Talarico’s+Church+Gives+Kids">reported</a> last week stocks sexually explicit books aimed at young people in its library, sets aside money every year for Planned Parenthood, according to its website. It also describes itself as a “Reproductive Freedom Congregation,” <a href="https://justtx.org/rfc/">meaning</a> it believes that “abortion is a blessing.&#8221;
Donating to Planned Parenthood is not the only way that St. Andrew&#8217;s promotes abortion. 
Through its Social Justice Committee, the church <a href="https://www.staopen.org/social-justice">backs</a> a project called “Field of Hope.” The project was created as a memorial for the AIDs epidemic, but now <a href="https://fieldofhopeaustin.org/gender-reproductive-justice.html">promotes</a> a variety of other activist organizations. One such organization is the Lilith Fund, which <a href="https://www.lilithfund.org/get-help/">provides</a> money for Texans to travel out of state to kill their unborn babies. 
It also promotes a <a href="https://janesdueprocess.org/about/">similar organization</a> called Jane’s Due Process, which says it provides “abortion and practical support funding for young people under 18 traveling out of Texas for abortion care.” This means it openly funds teenagers looking to leave Texas for abortions. 
The church&#8217;s position on abortion is in line with Talarico’s own <a href="https://jamestalarico.com/issue/health-care/">suppor</a>t for codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law to create a so-called right to an abortion. Talarico grounds his support for abortion in the biblical account of an angel visiting the Virgin Mary and telling her that she would miraculously conceive and give birth to Jesus Christ. 
&#8220;I say all this in the context of abortion, because before God comes over Mary, and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent,” he said during an appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast. “You cannot force someone to create… so that’s how I come down on that side of the issue.”
Talarico’s opponent, Paxton, has gone after leftist activists that ship abortion pills into Texas during his time as attorney general. Much of his attacks on Talarico have focused in on the Democrat’s leftist statements on religion, abortion, and transgenderism.
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The radical pro-abortion groups are just a sliver of the liberal causes supported by the church. Other organizations St. Andrew’s lists on its donation page included Out Youth Austin, the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Evergreen Action, and the Carbon180. 
Out Youth Austin <a href="https://www.outyouth.org/about/mission">describes</a> itself as a group that provides “a safe space for LGBTQ+ youth to come together, receive support, and make friends who understand who they are.” One of the programs it offers is a summer camp for kids between the ages of 11-17 who identify as gay or transgender. 
The organization says that recent actions in Texas have “caused distress” for “trans and non-binary youth” and points to a number of radical groups that support transgender procedures on kids. For people 18 and older, Out Youth Austin will help them <a href="https://www.outyouth.org/resources/social-services">obtain</a> the “necessary letters” for “this important step in your transition.”
The U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights is an anti-Israel organization that says it is <a href="https://uscpr.org/about-us/#team">focused</a> on “collective liberation” opposed to “all forms of bigotry” which it defines as “Zionism, racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, sexism, queerphobia, transphobia, classism, and ableism.”
Evergreen Action is <a href="https://www.evergreenaction.com/about/">focused</a> on the fight to “defeat climate change” founded by staffers who used to work for Washington Democrat Governor Jay Inslee. Carbon180 <a href="https://carbon180.org/our-approach/">wants</a> to “bring carbon removal solutions to gigaton scale” by shaping federal policy.
The latest <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2026/texas/talarico-vs-paxton">polling</a> between Talarico and Paxton has the race virtually tied. Democrats haven&#8217;t won a U.S. Senate seat in Texas since 1988.

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