People use stories to make sense of the world, and the Republicans are very good at making the default stories that come to mind on issues they're working on be horrific stories. (Anyone remember "welfare queens"?) The human brain is wired to remember and understand things through stories and parables.

Women will die because we haven't told the stories that help people understand why abortions are necessary.

If we want to start winning on abortion, we need to change the default stories from the ones the Republicans have planted (of "irresponsible women using abortion as birth control") to stories that most Americans will have an immediate emotional reaction to, like Jamie's. We need to tell the real stories of why women end pregnancies.

We need people, when they think about a woman ending a pregnancy, to feel sympathy -- to feel protective of the woman, and of her right to the medical care she needs.

Please help me begin to make that story come alive in people's heads. If you have a way of sharing this video, please do so.

And if you have a story of your own to tell, please tell it.



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