{"id":96077,"date":"2016-06-14T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T15:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=96077"},"modified":"2016-06-14T12:34:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T16:34:47","slug":"tony-award-winner-proves-children-dont-prevent-women-from-being-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tony-award-winner-proves-children-dont-prevent-women-from-being-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Award winner proves children don&#8217;t prevent women from being successful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Sunday night, Broadway actress Renee Elise Goldsberry won the Tony Award for her role as Angelica Schuyler in &#8220;Hamilton.&#8221; For many people, winning the prestigious award would be the highlight of their lives, the greatest accomplishment a person could ever achieve. For Goldsberry, however, that wasn&#8217;t the case.<\/p>\n<p>In her emotional acceptance speech, Goldsberry\u00a0cried, as she thanked her husband and spoke of how she tried for 10 years to have children&#8230; and that she was able to be a mother and still with the award.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uomlPcoVJhE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Goldsberry\u00a0and her husband have two children: Benjamin and Brielle. Shortly before auditioning for &#8220;Hamilton,&#8221;\u00a0the couple had adopted Brielle from Africa and brought her home. Goldsberry wasn&#8217;t planning to work for a few months as they adjusted to life with their daughter, but she couldn&#8217;t pass up the chance to participate in the musical. It was a decision that clearly worked out for her. And she serves as a living reminder that women can have children, and also have successful careers.<\/p>\n<p>But as Goldsberry pointed out in her acceptance speech, there would be many people who wouldn&#8217;t understand why a woman would potentially sacrifice their career potential to have children\u2014\u00a0and it&#8217;s a sentiment that is often echoed by\u00a0the abortion lobby.<\/p>\n<p>Women are frequently told that they need abortion to be successful. Pro-abortion millennial Carly Manes argued that <a href=\"\/news\/millennial-women-accomplish-nothing-without-abortion\/\">women could accomplish nothing without abortion<\/a>. Pro-abortion radical Jessica Valenti has said that <a href=\"\/news\/jessica-valenti-college-is-totally-worth-killing-babies-over\/\">women need abortion so they can go to college<\/a>. Planned Parenthood president and CEO Cecile Richards <a href=\"\/news\/hillary-clinton-planned-parenthood-will-always-back\/\">recently claimed<\/a> that her abortion chain\u00a0has, for a hundred years, &#8220;allowed women to live out their dreams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those are just a few\u00a0examples. Abortion advocates <a href=\"\/news\/four-ways-abortion-demeans-women-instead-of-empowering-them\/\">routinely choose to demean women<\/a> and tear them down, rather than empower them and build them up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/AbortionProcedures.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg\" alt=\"levatino-ad-LAN\" width=\"306\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a woman faces adversity, they tell her to kill her baby. If a baby is perceived to be in the way of a woman&#8217;s career, then the answer is not to provide her with resources so she doesn&#8217;t have to choose, or to advocate for a more mother-friendly work environment; it&#8217;s for the mother to kill her baby! Abortion is the solution to every problem, and women are frequently told by pro-abortion activists that they are too weak, too fragile to handle a baby and a career.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s condescending, insulting, and harmful to women. Women do not have to choose between killing their babies and having a successful career. Goldsberry is the latest incredible example of that, but <a href=\"\/news\/women-empowered-choosing-life\/\">she&#8217;s far from the only one<\/a>. Women are strong enough, talented enough, and smart enough to accomplish their goals and achieve their dreams without having to resort to abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday night, Broadway actress Renee Elise Goldsberry won the Tony Award for her role as Angelica Schuyler in &#8220;Hamilton.&#8221; For many people, winning the prestigious award would be the highlight of their lives, the greatest accomplishment a person could ever achieve. For Goldsberry, however, that wasn&#8217;t the case. In her emotional acceptance speech, Goldsberry\u00a0cried, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":96100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,1479,496,9103,1889,2438,2437,32,33,34,9102,9104],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tony Award winner proves children don&#039;t prevent women from being successful<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Women do not have to choose between killing their babies and having a successful career. 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