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Headlines From The Times

Future of Abortion Part 2: Church

Headlines From The Times

L.A. Times Studios

News, Daily News, Society & Culture, The Times, California

4.1544 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The complicated story of how evangelicals mobilized around restricting abortion, and one Christian women’s place in it all.

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0:00.0

I just stand if you're able and join us for our opening song, I Want Jesus to Walk with Me.

0:07.0

One of the most frustrating things about the issue is there isn't really a place for people

0:24.5

who don't fit all the way on one side or all the way on the other side.

0:29.8

And I find myself very much caught in between. I want Jesus to walk with me.

0:43.2

Christy Berkhoff grew up thinking that abortion providers were murderers.

0:48.5

She devoted herself to banning the procedure.

0:51.7

I was very involved in Right to Life.

0:54.2

I was part of the marches.

0:57.4

That fight took Christy to Washington, D.C.,

1:00.0

but what she learned there basically made her abandon the anti-abortion cause altogether.

1:07.3

I was starting to think, you know, oh my goodness, we might actually not be doing the thing we say we're doing.

1:16.0

We might actually be promoting policies that are leading to abortion.

1:25.4

I'm Gustavariano. You're listening to The Times, Daily News from the LA Times.

1:30.8

It's Friday, April 15, 2022.

1:34.6

Later this year, the Supreme Court will announce a decision

1:38.0

in a case that could have seismic consequences

1:40.6

on an issue that has divided Americans for almost 50 years.

1:46.2

The constitutional protection for the right to abortion.

1:52.3

We will hear argument this morning in case 191392, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

2:04.2

General Stewart. Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the court,

2:10.6

Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey haunt our country. They have no basis in the Constitution.

2:12.9

They have no home in our history or traditions.

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