"Critical Abortion Theory"
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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How new language is obscuring the debate about life.
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| 0:00.0 | What on a breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of |
| 0:04.2 | unchanging truth, with the Colston Center on John Stone Street. |
| 0:09.4 | You know, typically the side that tries the hardest to obscure what all is being argued is the wrong one. |
| 0:14.7 | For example, abortion supporters these days, having largely lost the scientific and constitutional |
| 0:19.5 | battles, have instead turned to critical theory talking points and claims of victimhood. |
| 0:24.4 | The strategy is to portray abortion as a justice issue, |
| 0:28.1 | and that anyone who opposes it is an oppressor. |
| 0:31.2 | For example, a recent short film from the New York Times |
| 0:34.0 | dramatizes the struggles of abortion clinic workers and patients |
| 0:37.6 | against the supposed scourge of pro-life laws and protesters. The video is by Lynn Sachs and entitled |
| 0:44.2 | Contractions. It features bizarre sequences of mostly African American women in |
| 0:48.9 | hospital gowns milling around an abortion clinic parking lot, |
| 0:52.5 | covering their faces, while Planned Parenthood staffers |
| 0:55.8 | deliver these breathy dramatic narrations, |
| 0:58.2 | like your character gets attacked just |
| 1:00.3 | going into the building to do your job. |
| 1:02.3 | It's war every day, one employee says. |
| 1:05.0 | So many freedoms are being taken away every day, another says. |
| 1:08.8 | I feel like I'm on the new underground railroad, a patient says, |
| 1:12.4 | who identifies as a woman of color. |
| 1:14.4 | These changes are really just about control. |
| 1:16.6 | They're taking our power from us. |
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