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#401 Four Things Pro-Choice People Get RIGHT - Monica Doumit

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Monica Doumit, the Director of Public Affairs and Engagement for the Archdiocese of Sydney, is one of the clearest pro-life voices on Earth. Here’s what happens when we ask her to admit some of the things pro-choice people are right about. Cy Kellett: Pro-choice arguments actually get a lot right. Monica Doumit is next. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic answers podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. And we’re not exactly going to be defending the Catholic faith at this time. We wanted to talk with one of our … well, you can p…

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Pro-choice arguments actually get a lot right. Monica Dumont is next.

0:09.3

Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers Podcast for living understanding and defending

0:14.4

your Catholic faith. And we're not exactly going to be defending the Catholic faith at this time.

0:20.8

We wanted to talk with one of our, well you can probably tell from how we respond whenever we

0:25.8

talk to her. Monica Dumont down there in Sydney, Australia is one of our favorite people in the

0:29.2

world. And we love it when she talks to us about pro-life stuff. She's just one of the best in the

0:34.0

world at talking about pro-life stuff. But we posed a little challenge to her this time. Something

0:38.8

we thought maybe this will be something we'll do on a regular basis, which is ask what are opponents

0:45.3

get right? Because it's important to acknowledge that your opponents do in fact get a lot right.

0:50.8

And not everybody who's a pro-choice person is a pro-choice person in bad faith. It's because

0:57.3

they get certain things right and those things are convincing to them on an intellectual

1:02.0

and moral and spiritual level. And so they are pro-choice people. So we thought we'd acknowledge or

1:07.4

ask Monica Dumont to acknowledge some of the things that pro-choiceers get right in this episode.

1:12.9

And here's what she had to say.

1:21.1

Monica Dumont from the Archdiocese of Sydney and Australia, the director of public affairs

1:25.6

and engagement, which means policy advisor to Anthony Archbishop Anthony Fisher. Thanks for being

1:31.5

with us. Thank you for having me back. I'm surprised that you're allowed to do a conversation with

1:37.2

an American from Australia. I thought you guys were locked down in every way. Well we are starting

1:43.2

to re-emerge after goodness about five months of being at home. I was on a maybe three-mile leash.

1:51.8

I'm trying to convey that into American. Yeah. Yeah, into American. Yeah, that's the thing.

1:58.6

All we've seen on TV for the last year or so is when you have mass protests out in the streets

2:04.9

of people who are like, I can't take it anymore. I got to go for a walk.

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