Posted on 04/01/2025 11:16:20 AM PDT by Morgana
Commentator Brett Cooper was on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast last week, where she discussed finding out as a teen that her father had wanted her mother to abort Brett.
“Your father wanted you aborted? Correct?” Ryan asked.
“Yes,” Cooper admitted, explaining she was 16 when she found out.
At the time, she was living and working in Los Angeles as a child actor and she didn’t understand the pro-abortion and pro-life position. Cooper asked her mother for clarity, saying that her mother never shied away from hard questions. As they talked about what it means to be pro-life, Cooper’s mother revealed that her mind was made up after her then-husband pressured her to abort Brett.
“What really changed her mind permanently about abortion was when my Dad came to her and was like, ‘I don’t want a child,'” Cooper said. Her mother and father had a difficult marriage, and Cooper’s father believed that he was unable to handle another baby.
The event, Cooper explained, caused her mother to “reanalyze the whole issue from a much more personal perspective.”
Her mother told her father, “If you want this so badly, you go make the appointment,” but, Cooper added, “he couldn’t bring himself to do it.”
Cooper said that she wasn’t exactly surprised by the news when she found out, because as a child she did not have a great relationship with her dad. Though their relationship is better today, she said she has never asked her father about his feelings at that time.
“I have a lot more empathy for him as I’ve gotten older, and I understand him more,” she said, noting that as a child she blamed him for many of the problems that her parents experienced in their marriage. Now, she realizes that he was a “broken man.”
“One of the greatest parts of growing up is seeing your own parents as humans, with their own childhood, their own baggage,” she said. “It’s really helped our relationship.”
She explained that marrying her husband, Alex, has helped her see her father in a new light.
“Bringing somebody into my life who didn’t carry the baggage and the weight of growing up in this environment and didn’t experience the heartbreaks and didn’t experience feeling let down… he was just able to look at my dad as just a human and was able to find him so endearing and funny and kind. Being able to see him through my husband’s lens… that’s made me so much better.”
I saw an interview where she said that she has a mentally incompetent living on the street somewhere.
My ex-wife wanted to abort our daughter. She was so matter of fact about it. I asked her she was nuts. I’m not killing that child.
She seems to have gone through a difficult childhood and come out very thoughtful and balanced.
I saw an interview where she said that she has a mentally incompetent brother living on the street somewhere.
Just correcting my earlier post.
We need to hear from more parents who considered abortion and ultimately declined. You won’t see too many of them on the MSM.
Tim Tebow was one of the lucky ones.
So was Colin Kapernick believe it or not.
Pro choice people don’t appreciate that children can overcome obstacles.
I think that’s the one she says is schizophrenic.
I’m not sure why you posted those pictures. I hope you aren’t posting them in an effort to make her seem attractive.
She looks like a 12 year old version of Ben Shapiro.
Stop it. Just don’t.
Well, I’d say she looks far more beautiful than so many leftist “women”.
I don’t think I posted anything offensive. Not sure why it triggered you. I could guess, but I will keep that to myself.
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She’s about 24 years old. I don’t see your problem.
You can argue it was “sexist” to post the pictures, which I would dispute; but if you think she looks 12, then your age radar needs a tune-up.
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I’m not offended or triggered. Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything.
I guess “to each their own” and if you want to see her that way, that is your right.
I don’t agree with her or relate to her very much but do I actually respect Brett a lot and think that she fills a needed niche in the conservative influencer sphere. Hot, gun-toting, sexy e-babe...isn’t that niche. Leave that to the whores like Ashley St. Claire, Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace.
What do you disagree with her over?
I just feel like she is a “Bush-league” Republican with very milquetoast 2000’s type of views.
She is a great ambassador for basic conservatism to teen and 20-something’s. She is very relatable to normal kids and I thinks does a lot of good.
I think she would have become Obama Democrat in 2008. The pendulum has swung towards Trump and Brett Cooper is just there for the ride (and $$$).
Well, you said you ‘don’t agree’ with her; so I thought it might be some issue or opinion; something more substantive.
Her mother should be ashamed for laying such news on a 16-year-old. Quite unfair.
Also, why did she give her daughter a boy’s name?
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