Stacey Abrams explains the change in her position on abortion: There is 'no place in that medical

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decision for ideology or for politicians'

Georgia Democratic nominee for Governor Stacey Abrams explained in a Friday interview with CNN how her perspective on abortion rights has evolved over the years and how she came to support the right to abortion services after being raised in a religious household.

"I was very much on the side of anti-abortion, through much of my upbringing. I grew up in Mississippi, in a very religious family, in a religious community," Abrams told CNN host Sara Sidner. "And I was raised to have a very uncritical eye to this question."

She went on to explain she had a change of heart after watching a friend face "the very real consequences" of an unwanted pregnancy that made her question her beliefs about abortion.

"I understand the sincere concerns. But those are religious concerns, or often concerns driven by personal morality. And that should be your choice," Abrams said in the CNN interview. "But abortion is a medical issue. It is about a medical decision. And there is no place, in that medical decision, for ideology, or for politicians."

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1. Sounds like me.

I do not think non-Catholic Americans should be forced to live by my church's teaching. I'm in good company: Biden, Pelosi, Matin Sheen.

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2. Thank you Stacey Abrams for talking about this so clearly.

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3. President Biden was also pro life for many years before he evolved

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4. Everyone is entitled to their own belief about abortion, they don't have a right to force that view

on others.

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6. Absolutely correct!

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7. This

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10. Exactly.

Why should Americans be required to live by a church's teachings? Or more than one church's teachings?

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5. Isn't banning abortions a religious law?

And doesn't the first amendment ban religious laws

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

There should be law suits based on this

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8. I changed also used to be prolife

When younger then someone very close to me had an abortion and I just couldn't think of that person as a murderer. It opened my mind and within a few years I was pro choice.

That was also my religious years and short few years of voting Republican. In my early 20's never again.

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9. I was very religeous when as a kid and was pro-life

I changed my mind as a teenager after my parents explained why a woman or a girl would choose that right and that it was their right to make their own medical decisions.