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The Michael Knowles Show

Choosing Life: A journalistic survey of the debate - Alexandra Desanctis

The Michael Knowles Show

The Michael Knowles Show

News Commentary, News

4.828.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Visiting Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Alexandra Desanctis, gives a concise and factual survey of the history and key arguments surrounding Roe v. Wade and the debate over abortion rights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think that women are would be much better off in a society that totally rejected abortion.

0:07.2

It creates an anti-woman culture.

0:09.4

When you say that a solution to women's problems is an act that pits her against her own child,

0:15.3

that creates a societal understanding that women are kind of expected to, at the very

0:20.0

least, be open to the possibility of killing their child in order to sort of advance themselves.

0:24.7

Whether that's, you know, women can only make it to the corner office if they have access

0:27.8

to abortion or women can only, you know, achieve the educational goals they have if they

0:31.9

have access to this act of violence, that does not create a pro-woman society.

0:35.8

A pro-woman society would say, everything about women is good and not to be embraced

0:40.5

and accepted, including their ability to become pregnant.

0:43.2

And we should support that by requiring men to support women when they're pregnant,

0:47.8

by encouraging marriage and family formation, by helping women who are unexpectedly pregnant,

0:53.6

carry their pregnancies to term, you know, retain job opportunities if that's what they

0:57.0

want while being a mother, as opposed to kind of rejecting pregnancy and motherhood and

1:01.1

pretending we can get rid of them by killing unborn children.

1:07.3

Abortion is an essential aspect of women's health care, without which thousands of women would

1:12.5

be killed each year by the inhuman clumps of cells in their wounds.

1:17.0

Right?

1:18.0

That's the story we've heard from the pro-abortion movement, and its mouthpieces in the

1:21.8

establishment media for 50 years.

1:24.6

The only problem is that none of those things are true, as Alexandra DeSantis has been showing

1:29.5

in her prolific and influential writings on the foundational lies of the pro-abortion

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