00:07I'm Reverend Millie Horning Peters and I'm currently co-chair of the Kentucky
00:15Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and coordinator of Concerned
00:20Clergy for Choice. When I was a young adult I was interested in women's rights
00:26and then serving as a clergywoman in Illinois, the issue of women's rights was
00:34prominent. Women were not well received in the pulpit at that time. There's been a
00:41big difference. I wasn't sure I would live to even see the day that a woman
00:47could stand in the pulpit and a big issue not be made out of it, but that day has
00:52arrived and I'm hopeful that the same thing will happen with our reproductive
00:58issues. The real thing is a woman's right to determine what happens to her own body,
01:07just the freedom to make those choices and I've always been about that. Roe v.
01:15weight is the law of the land. The 14th Amendment says that we have the right to
01:25the laws of the land and these restrictions and burdens are being placed to try to
01:33undo that and take that particular freedom of choice away from women and
01:41families. And it isn't the place of politicians to determine that. The
01:47Unitarians, including First Unitarian, have been strong with LGBT, Black Lives
01:52Matter, gun control against violence. There is another religious viewpoint. There's
01:58more than the one. We're not well organized as a big group or well financed. We're
02:05not out raising money for our cause, but we are compassionate people who listen, who have
02:15understanding and empathy, and we're living compassion.
02:27The arc of justice, they say, is always leaning forward. But it doesn't move on its own. And
02:38it moves slowly and gradually. But it's moving. And I think that that's where we are. We're
02:47moving forward as a network of justice people.
