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Ordinary Equality

Let’s Go to Church

Ordinary Equality

Acast Creative Studios

Suffrage, Era, Women's Rights, Politics, Society & Culture, Abortion, Equal Rights Amendment, News, Reproductive Rights, History, Equal Rights

4.0614 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

“While the arguments are typically framed in a way that pits religion against science, faith and abortion access have a complicated and diverse relationship.”

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The anti-abortion movement is based in churches because those are the institutions where men and women have very rigid different roles.

0:12.0

And because of that, it's totally permissible to just blatantly discriminate against women and say this is of God.

0:20.0

That it's God's decision that women

0:22.4

must be excluded at every decision-making level. Now, that's not okay anywhere else in the world,

0:28.7

a corporation, a sports team, Congress, anywhere else in society, basically. But religions

0:35.2

can just blatantly say, you are not allowed to have women leaders,

0:39.3

because that's what God wants.

0:44.3

This is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity. It's a decision that she must make for herself.

0:55.0

From Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina, dedicated women marched.

1:01.0

Abortion is fast becoming the new political fault line.

1:05.0

My body, my choice!

1:07.0

My body, my choice!

1:10.0

Alabama's governor has signed the nation's strictest abortion ban into law.

1:14.6

The Human Life Protection Act outlaws the procedure except when the mother's life is at risk.

1:19.6

This bill is not about pro-life or the right to life.

1:24.6

This bill is about control.

1:26.6

We will not go back.

1:30.3

And we, the people of the United States of America, documented or undocumented, are having abortions legal or not.

1:40.2

This court will never stop us.

1:46.0

This is Ord never stop us. This is ordinary equality.

1:48.5

I'm Jamea Wilson, writer, editor, and feminist activist.

1:52.6

And I'm Kate Kelly, human rights attorney and feminist activist.

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