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Our Mission

Rooted in sacred, moral, and reproductive justice values, the Religious Community for Reproductive Care (RCRC) is a multifaith, intersectional, and antiracist movement championing reproductive freedom and dignity through spiritual companionship, frameworks for faith leaders, and engaging the newest generation of activists.

Our Story

We evolved from a pre-Roe underground network of ministers, rabbis, and lay leaders called the Clergy Consultation Service (CCS), formed in 1967. In response to the deaths and injuries caused by unsafe abortions, this group quietly referred pregnant people across state lines to abortion providers they had researched and found to be safe. During its run, the CCS helped an estimated half a million people obtain safe abortion care.

After the 1973 Roe decision, a new group grew out of CCS—known today as the Religious Community for Reproductive Care.

Over the decades, our mission has grown to include the full breadth of reproductive freedoms, but our core task remains the same: drawing upon our faith values and communities in order to champion reproductive rights, choice, justice, and freedom.

Highlighted Articles

The Nation
Bless This Clinic: How Clergy Are Showing Up for Abortion Clinics
by Asha Dahya & Rev. Katey Zeh

The Christian Century
Seeing abortion access as a blessing
by Annelisa Burns

New York Times
A Blessing for an Abortion Clinic
by Isabelle Taft & Maggie Shannon

RCRC Leadership

Rev. Katey Zeh

Rev. Katey Zeh

CEO
Rev. Zeh joined RCRC as a seminarian trained in our spiritual youth activism program and in 2015 became the youngest board chair ever elected to lead RCRC. Now as CEO, Rev. Katey guides the organization with prophetic vision, compassion, and heart. The Center for American Progress named her one of their top justice-seeking faith leaders to watch for her work on reproductive freedom. Rev. Katey has written for many outlets including the Washington Post, Sojourners, Religion News Services, and Religion Dispatches, and she regularly appears in the media, including The Atlantic, CNN, The Nation, BBC, NBC News, Newsweek, and The Christian Century. She is the co-host of the Kindreds podcast and the author of two books, A Complicated Choice: Making Space for Grief and Healing in the Pro-Choice Movement  and Women Rise Up: Sacred Stories of Resistance for Today’s Revolution.
Asha Dahya

Asha Dahya

Board Chair

Asha Dahya is an Emmy-nominated Producer, writer, TEDx speaker and storyteller. She directed and produced an award-winning short documentary about later abortion called SOMEONE YOU KNOW. She created, Executive Produced and co-hosted an audio and video series about Latin America’s Green Wave abortion rights movement called GREEN TIDE RISING, which was nominated for a Webby Award in the U.S., and a One World Media award in the UK, both in 2025.

Asha is the founder of a daily feminist digital magazine called GirlTalkHQ.com, which spawned a book deal in 2018. She is the author of ‘Today’s Wonder Women: Everyday Superheroes Who Are Changing The World’, featuring inspirational stories of 50 women and girls.

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