Hi, beautiful people.
My name is Brenda Davis.
I'm the creator and host of In the
Gray. And today I'm going
to explain why I am a pro-choice
Christian and why
I know for an absolute fact
that overturning Roe v Wade
would be anti-Christ.
Literally, literally.
I had a actual panic
attack and had you run out of a
restaurant when I read this
headline.
Louisiana Republicans Advance
A Bill That Would Charge Abortion
as homicide.
Thank Jesus that Louisiana's
Republican led House of
Representatives stopped this measure
last Thursday.
But this is no time
to breathe easy, because if
Roe v Wade is overturned,
which is likely to happen,
the decision falls on two individual
states, and an estimated 26
states are certain or likely
to ban abortion.
And even though nationwide polls
show overwhelming support for
abortion being legal in the cases of
SC or incest.
Republican Governor Kevin Stitt
signed legislation in Oklahoma
that bans abortion unless
it is necessary to save the life
of the pregnant person.
This law makes no exceptions
for cases of SCA or incest
and is scheduled to go into effect
in August.
I'm fine. And for any Christians
watching this, watching me freak
out and you're thinking, Boo,
you whore.
Let me tell you, I am
a mother who was previously
abused into an abortion.
There is nothing more important to
me than to see abortion rates
in this country plummet.
I am so sick of
the cliche that pro-choice people
love abortion and don't care
if the numbers increase when an
absolute provable fact.
Our party does more to prevent
abortion than the pro-life party
ever has.
I have made seven videos
on abortion where I have tried
desperately to call Christians
to the table and ask them to
face this statistically
proven, absolute reality
that the prevention of pregnancy
and resources for families in
need prevents
abortion with far
greater success than the
criminalization of abortion ever
has or ever will.
In short, pro-choice people
like myself are aiming to create
a world that is so hospitable
to human life that a pregnant
person can say, Yes,
I will have this child with
confidence and support.
This would look like providing the
services that all the leading
first world countries besides
America have been willing to provide
their citizens like accessible
higher education, child care
and medical care, or
easy access to mother
and baby formula.
They want to force birth during
a baby formula shortage.
So, kids.
Oh, my God.
Republicans fearmonger the public
into believing that our taxes will
skyrocket if we provide our citizens
universal health care.
But the fact of the matter is, our
taxes are already astronomically
high, and the average American
citizen has nothing tangible
to show for it.
We can't afford to buy houses.
Gas and food prices are
skyrocketing.
We can't afford to go to the doctor.
Our national student loan debt is
1.75 trillion.
I myself was paying $365
a month for health insurance.
But when I got pregnant, I was
quoted a bill of 6000
to $120000,
which would have put me and my son
into immediate poverty
and into an insurmountable
debt.
Hospital debt is just one
of the burdens that we put on
American citizens who get
pregnant.
So pro-lifers, what do you
intend to do about this grave
injustice?
Will you keep voting against
universal health care and instead
implement forced birth?
Is that your plan?
Also, when are you going to stop
spreading fear and lies around
basic comprehensive sex education?
Do you have any idea how
successful communities and nations
with comprehensive sex ed are
at both preventing pregnancy
and delaying teen sex,
thereby preventing abortion
versus what we do in this nation,
which is to protect kids
from learning about sex and
pregnancy and consent, and
instead pray to God that they don't
reenact what they've been learning
in porn since they discovered it
at the national age of eight
years old.
Taking a pro-life box and
holding a pro-life sign may
feel like you are doing the right
thing.
And I do believe
that you believe you are doing
the right thing.
I am not here to diminish your
heart, but the removal
of a person's God, given free
will and autonomy, including
that of pregnant teenagers and
S8 victims, is
not the answer.
You may, quote, save a baby,
but forced birth will take
an egregious toll on
the mental, spiritual and physical
health of that pregnant person,
which in turn jeopardizes
the health and safety of the
baby. That person is cooking.
Yes. Yes.
We know this is a proud moment for
you to go away for.
Spurs is anti-Christ
and inhumane Satan's
favorite attributes of a national
policy.
And I will also remind you that
there is a very good argument that
Mary herself consented
to being impregnated by God.
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Number one, and this is crucially
important.
Arguing over when life begins
is a waste of time
and energy.
Watching people debate.
This is like watching two people
race on mouse wheels.
You're both expending energy and
going absolutely nowhere.
The debate on when life begins
is a matter of personal morality.
It's an existential question.
And if someone already believes
in life at conception, they're going
to believe that abortion is wrong.
So what you need to do is pivot
not into shouting my body, my
choice, because pro-lifers do
not care about that.
What you're going to say is
my heart.
My goal is to see abortion
rates drastically decline
nationwide.
I vote pro-choice because pro-choice
policy makers work to
implement change that makes our
nation hospitable to
new and existing human
life.
Now, that sounds like Jesus Christ
to me.
After making that point, if
you really want to, you
can also point out to the person
that the Bible actually says
life begins at first breath,
not at conception.
In Genesis two seven, in
Job 33 four and
Ezekiel 37 five reads
thus says The Lord God to these
bones, behold, I
will cause breath to enter you
and you shall live.
It is also true that Exodus 21
states that if a man causes
a woman to miscarry, he
shall be fined.
Whereas if he causes that woman
to die, he shall be
put to death.
Putting a clear distinction in
penalty where only the death
of the woman herself is
considered a capital offense.
And last but hardly least,
the Bible does quote God
as ordering an abortion,
which, by the way, does not
sound like our loving God to me,
but sounds like maybe, just
maybe, the men in the Bible were
taking some liberties and accusing
God for their own ill deeds.
In numbers five under the title
The Test for an Unfaithful
Wife, the husband is instructed
to bring his wife to the priest,
and whether his jealous ass
is wrong or right about her
infidelity, she'll be forced
to drink poison.
Quote, If she has made herself
impure and has been unfaithful
to her husband, this will be
the result when she is made to
drink the water that brings a curse
and causes bitter suffering.
It will enter her.
Her abdomen will swell and her womb
will miscarry.
And she will become a curse.
If, however, the woman has not
made herself impure but is
clean, she will be cleared of guilt
and will be able to have children.
The Bible, a compassionate
masterpiece of everlasting love.
Also, this sexist pseudoscience
sounds really familiar.
From what I understand from doctors.
That's really rare if it's a
legitimate rape.
The female body has ways to try to
shut that whole thing down.
And on that note, number two,
when speaking to a pro-life person,
bring up the societal issues
in America that cause needless
human suffering.
When we consider reproduction
beyond sex and health care and
resources, we need to teach
about consent and male
accountability.
Again, I myself was abused
into an abortion.
And this is not an uncommon story.
Men literally beg
us not to wear condoms
or they stealth, which means
they take off the condom in the
middle of sex without our consent.
And then when we get pregnant, they
don't have to pay child support and
they bail.
Also, isn't it just funny
that no one is talking about
criminalizing the men who have
abortions?
So funny.
More fun facts.
Many states won't cover birth
control via insurance, and plan
B is $50
a pop.
Anyone who can't afford out of
pocket B.S.
or an overinflated pill price tag
cannot afford a dying child.
Also, one in five kids are food
insecure.
Over 400,000 kids are in foster
care. Not to mention, funded
education begins in kindergarten,
leaving single parents like me a
five year gap of accessing
child care while continuing to work.
And don't even get me started on
maternal death rates.
The same states advocating
for these inhumane forced birth
policies have the highest
rates of maternal deaths, and
black women are dying in droves
while giving birth.
Pro-lifers.
Seriously, what the fuck are
you going to do to amend these
issues as an aside but still
relevant if we're talking about the
value of life in 2020?
According to the CDC, suicide
was the second leading cause of
death for people ages 10
to 14 years.
But our nation will provide mental
health care for those in need.
Not to mention remote and forced
background checks for gun owners,
even though the combo of assault
rifles and unchecked mental health
issues are killing our kids, too.
But lastly, number three,
and this is the hardest one
to talk to people like human beings.
This issue is enraging,
but we have to remember that each
side believes they are protecting
life.
The question we need to ask
pro-lifers is, are you
really only willing to protect
life when you call it, quote,
innocent, meaning the unborn?
Because if you thrust these lives
into an uninhabitable nation, into
a hospital where their mother is
risking death to bring them there,
into a nation run by corporations
who refuse to address wealth
inequality and climate change, and
into a society that doesn't even
have enough dang baby formula
if the woman can't provide milk.
Are you pro-life?
If you are not willing to address
these issues and do
not take the lazy route and talk
to me about adoption,
I have already said there are
400,000 kids
in foster care wishing
they had homes that you are not
able or willing to provide.
And I'm talking to liberals to
to the home associations and wealthy
communities who keep voting out
affordable housing.
I think people aren't living their
values. You go to these meetings
in these neighborhoods where they're
talking about a new housing project
and it's always the same song and
it goes like this.
I am very in favor of affordable
housing. We need more of it in this
community.
However, I have some concerns about
this project.
We have the hearts to do this,
but we're doing it wrong and
we're dictating and harm
on to the neighborhoods.
And then off we go with the
concerns. And then nothing ever gets
built.
The stone cold facts that pro-lifers
don't want to hear is that solving
abortion is not as simple
as making it illegal.
Decreasing or nearly eradicating
abortion is going to require
a compassionate army
of warriors of all
occupations, genders,
sexual orientations, nationalities,
creeds and races
to amend the wrongs in the society
that cause abortion.
Pro-Life.
Pro-Choice.
We need to stop behaving
as though we are divided and
recognize that we now must
share a common goal.
We need to demand the lawmakers
of this country make this
nation the America that we
were promised that it would be.
And women. We represent over 50%
of the population in this country.
So register and get your
asses out to vote.
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I love you all so much.
God bless.