‘Pro-life’ in a post-Roe world
Post Reports
The Washington Post
4.4 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
As the Supreme Court seems poised to strike down Roe v. Wade, we explore some of the fissures in the antiabortion movement.
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What does it mean to identify as “pro-life” in 2022?
When Karen Swallow Prior, a longtime antiabortion activist, first heard about the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion suggesting that Roe v. Wade would be overturned, she was thrilled. But she quickly realized her feelings on the “pro-life” movement had become a lot more complicated over the decades.
Religion reporter Michelle Boorstein and Post Reports producer Rennie Svirnovskiy visited with Prior as she grappled with what it means to be “pro-life.”
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| 0:30.9 | Michelle, where are we driving? |
| 0:35.5 | Why are we driving? |
| 0:37.7 | We're driving near the Blue Ridge Mountains and it's been super steamy and misty out |
| 0:42.9 | or on our way to outside of Lynchburg where we're going to meet Karen Swallow prior. |
| 0:50.4 | My colleague, Michelle Borstein, reports on religion, and in the run up to the Supreme Court |
| 0:54.9 | ruling on abortion, she has been talking with a well-known evangelical conservative, a |
| 1:00.2 | woman named Karen Swallow prior. |
| 1:02.9 | I've known Karen for a while covering religion. |
| 1:06.3 | She's kind of become a bigger name a little bit in recent years. |
| 1:11.1 | She's become kind of known for raising questions among evangelicals and pro-lifers, so I've known |
| 1:17.2 | her on an offer for a while. |
| 1:21.5 | Karen lives in Amherst County, Virginia, which is about a three-hour drive from Washington, |
| 1:25.4 | DC. |
| 1:26.4 | Michelle and audio producer Rene Sfernovsky met with her the other week. |
| 1:30.1 | This was days after the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion, suggesting that Roe v. Wade |
| 1:35.0 | would be overturned. |
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