A "fetal heartbeat" law is now in effect in Mississippi — making it a crime for doctors to perform abortions as early as six weeks — or once an ultrasound detects a heartbeat. The law won't affect this Christian OBGYN — who did a complete 180 on performing abortions.
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00:00Once I began to claim my faith identity and to acknowledge that there was nothing mutually
00:14exclusive about providing abortion care and being a person of religious faith, then the
00:19opposition became more fierce.
00:21Because I too am pro-life in terms of being in support of the life of the mother because
00:26I understand that a pregnancy or a fetus can never be more important than the woman
00:30carrying it.
00:34I never stood in their way, but I personally did not provide them and that became problematic
00:44when increasingly I lived in areas where there was no one else to refer them to.
00:53I then decided to look more deeply into my faith tradition of Christianity so that I
00:58could ultimately decide whether or not there was anything mutually exclusive about being
01:03a physician and being a Christian and providing abortion care.
01:09I decided that there was not.
01:23I've encountered women who, they were now seeing me because they had tried a remedy,
01:29either something that they had learned of on the internet or they had purchased what
01:33they thought was the medications often used to induce abortion, only to have it fail.
01:39When we make women morally equivalent or morally inferior to the value of a fetus,
01:53we have relegated them to the status of a thing.
02:07Every time an abortion is performed, a child is dying.
02:10So it's not a safe procedure as it is right now.
02:21To be able to have an abortion when you are taught that it's wrong or when you would
02:25say personally that it's wrong is not to be hypocritical, it is to be human and to be
02:32capable of making complex moral decisions, which we all are capable of and we all do
02:37every day.