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Her “prayer”:

Good morning, pro-choice America! I come to remind you that this [pointing to collar] too is the face of pro-choice America. The vast majority of religious Americans are behind you—as we have been for decades-since before Roe. We are pro-choice not in spite of our faith but because of it.

We’re pro-choice because we know that the scriptures—and any faith worthy of the name—do not give simple and easy answers to complex and difficult questions. They don’t promise to spare us from making tough decisions. They just promise that we won’t have to face those choices alone.

We’re pro-choice because we know that our faith cannot answer the question of when a fetus becomes a person. We also know that the whole question of fetal personhood is a disingenuous, and often malicious, attempt to distract us from the real issue—which is that the woman is a person. She is a person endowed by God, the U.S. Constitution, and common sense and decency with rights and responsibilities which she must exercise to the best of her ability, using her own best judgment.

And while our various religious traditions may teach various things about when, if, and how we should sacrifice ourselves for others, no one—not partner, nor priest, nor politician—no one gets to decide what is, or is not, an appropriate sacrifice for someone else to make.

We’re pro-choice because we have a vision.

We have plenty to march against—plenty to be outraged by:

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So we’re here to tell you—every one of you —how much we respect and honor you for the work you do and the decisions you make.

And so we march with you—a massive, living prayer for that just and safe world that lives already in the heart of God... that shimmers on the horizon of our hope... and from which we will never turn back! God bless you all—today and always.