When Roe Vs Wade was overturned, what did you do? What thoughts went through your mind?
For Jessica Winegeart, it was anger, uncertainty, and a fear that “women” were being served an injustice. She says that herself. Keep reading this article to find out more.
On the day that Roe was overturned, June 24th, 2022, she took to Facebook to say this:
Recently, Brady Butler, a righteous man who hates abortion, who had a much different reaction on that day, called her out for it. After starting that dust-up, he made a thoughtful video on the topic of abortion, articulating the abolitionist viewpoint very well.
However, Jessica Winegeart responded to his post with a very confusing video. In a highly-rehearsed manner, she says:
“Today, my opponent posted a Facebook status I wrote three years ago, on the day Roe v. Wade was overturned. The post is real. What isn’t real is his claim that he knows why I wrote it. Brady says my reaction came from a value system not shared by the people of Western Oklahoma. That is simply not true. I was born and raised here, and I was raised with Western Oklahoma values. I’ve spent my entire life in Western Oklahoma. I am a wife. I am a mother of two daughters. I am a Christian, and I am pro-life. The reason I reacted emotionally that day wasn’t because I don’t value life. It was because I am a woman, and like many women, I was trying to process what that decision meant. Those emotions were real. What Brady doesn’t seem to understand is that believing life is precious and caring deeply about women are not mutually exclusive. I’ve always believed life is precious. I also believe women facing difficult circumstances deserve compassion, dignity, and understanding. If voters want to know where I stand today, I’ll tell them clearly: I’m pro-life, and I support exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. I’m happy to discuss my positions openly. What I won’t do is pretend that a three-year-old Facebook post tells the whole story of who I am. I could choose to respond by bringing up issues in my opponent’s past. I won’t. I’m better than that. Western Oklahoma deserves a campaign focused on agriculture, education, healthcare, property taxes, and our rural communities — not one focused on someone telling you what was in someone else’s heart three years ago today.”
Let’s go through this statement step-by-step.
First, she says that she did react that way on the day that Roe V Wade was overturned, because, “she’s a woman, and she was trying to process what that decision meant.” Ask yourself this: If you were anti-abortion, how on earth would you see the repeal of Roe Vs Wade as possibly being something that could “harm” you as a woman?? She then goes on to explain how Western Oklahoma holds her same values. What a joke! My Father grew up in Mountain View, and I visited that town on numerous occasions growing up. My church planted out of Elgin. I go to the Wichita Mountains, Roman Nose, Red Rock Canyon, and Gloss Mountain all the time with my family to enjoy the outdoors. Western Oklahoma is near and dear to my heart, and I can tell you: Jessica is insane if she thinks most Western Oklahoman women were also “scared” when Roe V Wade was overturned.
She goes on to pit celebrating the fall of Roe against “caring for women”, as if a Supreme Court decision that made it to where states were no longer forced to allow the violent slaughter of preborn children could be an example of “not caring for women”. To Jessica Winegeart, if you weren’t emotional like her, and joining protests along with her after the repeal of Roe V Wade, then you were “not caring for women”.
“Those emotions were real”, she says, appealing to her unstable femineity as an excuse. Well, if those emotions were real, they’re not the type of emotions that we should trust to make just law at the Oklahoma Capitol. It’s as simple as that.
She then goes to parrot the pro-choice refrain of, “Women facing difficult situations need compassion, dignity, and understanding”, seemingly implying that the repeal of Roe V Wade was doing the opposite. You’d hope it was because merely repealing Roe V Wade wasn’t enough, but no. She thought it was too far.
Here comes the kicker: Jessica openly admits that she supports abortion, in the cases of rape and incest. Statistically, you probably know someone living today that was a product of rape. Jessica thinks that person’s mother should have had the right to kill that person when they were living safely in their mother’s womb. That is a blatantly anti-life position to take. It’s anti-Christian, and it’s unjust.
If you are a Christian, you shouldn’t support someone who wants to treat Oklahomans with partiality, by allowing certain classes of its citizens to be murdered legally, merely because of the circumstances of their conception. Unfortunately, the Pro-Life Movement is such a watered-down, secular movement, that people like Jessica can claim that label for herself and no one bats and eye. But the thing is: Jessica is not fit to be a state senator, because she is one of these weak, limp-wristed Pro-Lifers. Brady, on the other hand, is an abortion abolitionist, which means he supports the total and immediate abolition of abortion, without exception or compromise.
It’s clear if you both take Jessica by her own words, and also read between the lines, there is no sense in which Jessica “Supports life”, like she says. She is lying about being against abortion. She only “supports life” in the way that’s easy to put on a campaign website, or say in a video like this. That means she theoretically checks that “pro-life” check mark, but isn’t actually committed to fighting abortion in any way.
Jessica then goes on to say, “I could choose to respond by bringing up issues in my opponent’s past. I won’t. I’m better than that.”, essentially claiming that Brady has all of these terrible issues in his past that she could bring up, without actually proving any of it. Prove it, Jessica. Otherwise, everyone clearly sees that you’re just lying. “My opponent has done really bad things, y’all. Just trust me on it. I’m not going to tell you what, or prove what I’m saying in any way, but just trust me. If I were to prove it to you, that’d just be me stooping to his level”. What a ridiculous and slimy line of reasoning.
She ends this video by saying, “Western Oklahoma deserves a campaign focused on agriculture, education, healthcare, property taxes, and our rural communities”, but she doesn’t want Western Oklahoma to have a campaign focused on the holocaust happening towards preborn children, justice for the fatherless, or the reform of our state’s morality. Jessica doesn’t care about that stuff. She’d rather focus on the less meaningful stuff, like crop subsidies.
It’s clear that Jessica is not qualified to be the state senator from district 26, and although this article isn’t about him, the Democrat-Donor Rick Koch is not, either. Vote for Brady Butler on June 16th, the only candidate endorsed by Abolish Abortion Oklahoma.
