Replay: Why You’re Right – And Wrong – About Abortion
Honestly with Bari Weiss
The Free Press
4.6 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:30.3 | Hi again it's Barry. The abortion debate is top of mind as we enter |
| 0:34.4 | 2022 with a pending Supreme Court decision that could radically change the |
| 0:38.8 | legality and availability of abortion in America. |
| 0:42.8 | So we thought we'd revisit my conversation with the writer Caitlin Flanagan. |
| 0:47.0 | As you might expect with this topic, this episode when we ran it in October originally |
| 0:51.5 | received a lot of passionate responses. |
| 0:54.4 | Some listeners wanted to know why we didn't touch on the abortion pill, |
| 0:58.0 | why we didn't talk about the merits of adoption. |
| 1:00.7 | Others wrote in about the sorrows of infertility or the injustice of sex-elective abortion. |
| 1:07.0 | But I think most were upset that both Caitlin and I for all of our reservations are pro-choice. I remain really proud of this episode, but we hear you. |
| 1:16.3 | We hear the listeners who wrote in to say that we should also include a guest who's |
| 1:20.0 | pro-life, and we're going to do that in the new year along with a number of debates |
| 1:24.4 | that we cannot wait to share with you. And with that, here's Caitlin Flanagan. I'm Barry Weiss and this is honestly. |
| 1:37.0 | Me being a mother of eight children I am pro-life. |
| 1:42.0 | That being said, that's a personal choice. |
| 1:46.0 | It's a decision that you carry with you the rest of your life. You know I wanted so bad to be a mom but I wasn't ready for it. |
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