Just days after 100 actors, musicians and artists — including Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington — spoke out against the Texas law that, say opponents, effectively eliminates access…
and posting powerful videos that take aim at political hypocrisy. Winslow on Friday shared his latest, which highlights the savage effects the new law will have on some women. It had just under 2 million views in 24 hours.
Over a chant of “My body, my choice,” the video’s narrator lays out some stark first-person realities for women in Texas: “If I am beaten and raped in the state of Texas, I have to give birth to my rapist’s baby,” she begins. “If I am raped by my father, brother or uncle in the state of Texas,” she continues, “I have to give birth to the body of my family abuser.
Then come the legal consequences: “This new law is so draconian that I can be prosecuted for having an abortion and so can my doctors, family and friends who advise me or even the Uber driver who simply drives me to the clinic.” The video winds to a close with a powerful list of affirmations, each of which begin with the same mantra:“I am a woman, and I have a human right to refuse to give birth to my rapist’s baby.”“I am a woman. You do not own or control my mind or my body.”Winslow, a sometimes Deadline contributor, has a number of projects in the works.
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