With the pledge, it became a primary debate among all the Republican primary candidates: Who’s the most pro-life? That’s exactly what you want. We started to ask presidential candidates to make a pledge of action. But I immediately saw the film for what it was: propaganda. I had grown up thinking that abortion was immoral, that anyone who had one would burn in hell. Such a limit has massive support in every demographic, except for the most hardcore left.Ĭalifornia Column: I’m a Catholic kid who supports abortion rights - thanks to my church’s catechism class We decided to very strategically put this at the center of politics: prove the case that this is not only the right thing to do, but the politically smart thing to do, by drawing a contrast between what the other side has achieved, absolute abortion on demand up into the end, paid for by everybody, versus what our candidates were advocating for: some compromise, like a 20-week limit. The organic movement grew and grew, but silently in communities and towns and churches all over the country. There were all sorts of education campaigns. It built pregnancy help centers trying to reach women to help them at that moment in their lives. In the second wave, the movement started to grow. So that first wave was figuring out: “Oh, we need a movement and what do we do?” So we required some sort of strategy quick, without any grass roots, just a handful of people.
22, 1973, there is a need for a huge movement, because every single pro-life law has been wiped off the books by the Supreme Court. Taking stock of the last few decades, how was Roe undone? What were the key turning points? How pivotal was 2016, when you got President Trump to commit to nominating justices who opposed abortion?Īll of a sudden, in Jan.
If you’re getting your tonsils taken out, that’s the object. Like, if you’re getting your appendix out, that’s the object. Though abortion will remain legal in California, residents across the state expressed outrage at the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe vs. I am not going to watch that.” But I had these conversations with people peppering me with difficult questions: “What happens in an abortion?” “What is the object?”Ĭalifornia ‘We will fight like hell’: California reacts to Supreme Court’s decision I remember I was like, “That is just insulting. He showed an abortion through a sonogram, and you could see what was happening. Bernard Nathanson, a prolific abortionist who changed his mind to being pro-life.
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They showed a movie on campus, “The Silent Scream” narrated by Dr. I had a lot of friends who were very pro-life. In college at Duke, I started pre-med and ended up in philosophy. It’s that - imagining the too horrible to imagine - that finally set my thoughts in process. Wade, now struck down.īut that ability to keep what an abortion is out of your thoughts, out of your mind … when I approach the reality of what the object of the abortion is, and then what happens in an abortion, I mean, it is really hard to ignore the reality of a procedure that tears a small human apart limb from limb. 56 years later she shares her storyĪ 22-year-old woman and an abortion doctor from California played key roles in the legal fight that led to Roe vs. California Her illegal abortion paved the way for Roe.
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