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“I absolutely think the word ‘Christian’ has been stolen in 2017 in America by the ‘Christian Right.’
I had an abortion when I was 21. I’d actually been public about having had an abortion 10 years ago, but that was pre-social media, so now in the age of Twitter and Facebook I was trolled pretty viciously. The experience of withstanding that has been really transformative.
In my church, we are prayerfully pro-choice, which means that we believe in the moral agency of women. I think a woman’s moral agency means that she has autonomy over herself to decide what is right for her body and decide what is right for her fetus. So I don’t feel like I’m in conflict with where I go every Sunday.
I’m never going to win those pro-life people over. They hate me and they say horrible things about me, and I am in acceptance of that. So to live alongside this hatred has been really empowering and, ultimately, freeing.”
--Amy Brenneman, #LivesofWomen
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“I absolutely think the word ‘Christian’ has been stolen in 2017 in America by the ‘Christian Right.’
I had an abortion when I was 21. I’d actually been public about having had an abortion 10 years ago, but that was pre-social media, so now in the age of Twitter and Facebook I was trolled pretty viciously. The experience of withstanding that has been really transformative.
In my church, we are prayerfully pro-choice, which means that we believe in the moral agency of women. I think a woman’s moral agency means that she has autonomy over herself to decide what is right for her body and decide what is right for her fetus. So I don’t feel like I’m in conflict with where I go every Sunday.
I’m never going to win those pro-life people over. They hate me and they say horrible things about me, and I am in acceptance of that. So to live alongside this hatred has been really empowering and, ultimately, freeing.”
--Amy Brenneman, #LivesofWomen
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