{"id":194238,"date":"2019-01-11T06:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T12:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=194238"},"modified":"2019-01-10T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T21:26:54","slug":"minds-change-abortion-right-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/minds-change-abortion-right-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch their minds change on abortion, from &#8216;it&#8217;s her right&#8217; to &#8216;it&#8217;s a life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Many people who describe themselves as pro-choice do so reflexively. After all, the surface arguments of a \u201cright to choose\u201d and \u201cbodily autonomy\u201d seem persuasive. But when these two women discovered the cruel reality of abortion in Live Action&#8217;s &#8220;man on the street&#8221;-style interviews, they were profoundly changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are times when you do need abortion,\u201d says a woman in one of two new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WzfgTbrGzpM\">videos released by Live Action<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s up to that person and their rights and what they want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oTxvdKtkjEs\">Another woman in a second video<\/a>\u00a0says,\u00a0\u201cAs a girl, if I were in that situation, if something were to happen to me without my consent [&#8230;] in the moment, I don\u2019t know what I would do, but I would definitely feel like the woman definitely had a choice in what she does with her child.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/these-pro-choicers-saw-the-truth-about-abortion-and-changed-minds\/\">These pro-choicers saw the truth about abortion\u2026 and changed their minds<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then, both women in these videos confront the reality of abortion as they see former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino describe a second trimester D&amp;E abortion, with accompanying 2D animation to illustrate his description. Though most abortions are committed in the first trimester, second trimester procedures happen with alarming frequency. The procedure is described in clinical terms in the video, and no graphic photos are shown. See that video below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgw4X7Dw_3k\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the first video, the young woman was surprised by what she learned. \u201cI personally thought that, you know, at that moment a woman really does have a choice,\u201d she said. But she found it hard to distance herself from the cruel reality of the procedure being done on another human person: \u201cIt\u2019s just crazy because this little infant fetus that\u2019s inside a woman is definitely alive, and I didn\u2019t know it was that cruel and crazy.\u201d See that video below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oTxvdKtkjEs\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The woman in the second video was visibly shaken and crying. \u201cI didn\u2019t know that you\u2019d have to detach and crush, and the process it goes through,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s so many options apart from abortion, and I know [&#8230;] why you might want an abortion, but there\u2019s always other &#8212; another option. And you just gotta suck it up because it\u2019s a life.\u201d She also saw the contradiction of a violent solution to violence, such that she even said she would not support abortion in cases of rape: \u201cYou can always put your child up for adoption. There\u2019s always another option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WzfgTbrGzpM\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The reality of abortion should not be hidden, she said: \u201cI would definitely say that people should watch more of these videos, and kind of get educated on the topic.&#8221; The videos, she said, should be shown to people besides women considering abortion, but to everyone: \u201cI would definitely show the younger teenagers, you know, male\/female both because it pertains to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people who describe themselves as pro-choice do so reflexively. 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But when these two women discovered the cruel reality of abortion in Live Action&#8217;s &#8220;man on the street&#8221;-style interviews, they were profoundly changed. \u201cThere are times when you do need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":194253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Watch their minds change on abortion, from &#039;it&#039;s her right&#039; to &#039;it&#039;s a life&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When these two women discovered the cruel reality of abortion in Live Action&#039;s &quot;man on the street&quot;-style interviews, they were profoundly changed.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/minds-change-abortion-right-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watch their minds change on abortion, from &#039;it&#039;s her right&#039; 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