Native Woman Challenges City Council
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Raven from Apologia Church addresses the Phoenix City Council during their special session to de-prioritize law enforcement against injustice of the preborn.
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- And yet, Native women are repeatedly told the lie that abortion is reproductive health care, that killing your unborn child is safe, much less a solution for the many disparities that Native women face today.
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- Yá 'át 'ééh. Good afternoon, members of the City Council and of the public. My name is
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- Raven McMullen, and I come to you first and foremost today as a follower of Jesus Christ.
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- I also come to you as a proud member of the Navajo Nation. I am born of the
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- Black Streaked Wood people, born for the Water Flows Together clan, and I also come to you today in opposition of the resolution presented here today.
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- Yesterday, the City of Phoenix acknowledged Indigenous Peoples Day, citing it as a day to honor the past, present, and future of Native peoples across the country.
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- However, just in the state of Arizona alone, in 2020, for every 1 ,000 Native babies born, 91
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- Native babies were aborted. This is according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.
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- The God of all creation, who loves his creation, says that life begins at conception.
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- My invaluable worth as a Native girl, as a Native woman, as a human being, began there right away.
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- And Navajo, along with many other nations, recognize the sanctity of life, of life at conception.
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- And yet Native women are repeatedly told the lie that abortion is reproductive health care, that killing your unborn child is safe, much less a solution for the many disparities that Native women face today.
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- Again, if the city wants to truly honor Native peoples past, present, and future, if the city wants to seek justice and correct oppression respectfully, it's going to take much more than a day off from work on Indigenous Peoples Day.
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- It's going to take the equal protection of our unborn. Where is the honor in merely professing to care for Indigenous lives, or all lives for that matter, when the resolution before us today would enable thousands upon thousands of more innocent children to be killed, and also signal to the many women, and Native women just like me, that not only do the lives of the unborn not matter, but neither do our voices for their protection.